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Bacha, (Falco Bido, Worsf.) from Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and . 
— Singapoor.”’ 
T'wo specimens of the Andaman bird were sent by Colonel 
Tytler, when he was Governor of the settlement, to Calcutta, 
for the Zoological Society, which birds seem somehow to have 
been presented to the Society in Mr. Grote’s name; in regard 
to these, Blyth tells us in the Ibis for 1868 :— 
“The live birds sent to the Zoological Gardens by Mr. Grote 
belong not to this species, as stated, but to the next H. Elgini, 
which Mr. Gurney considers to be identical with H. Bacha of 
the Malay countries, described by me, from Ceylon, as Z. 
Spilogaster (Cf. Ibis, 1866, pp. 242, 248).” 
For the present we may, therefore, safely assume the identity 
of the Ceylonese, Andaman, Malayan &c., forms. 
As the head quarters of the Circaeti are to the west, so those 
of Spilornis are to the east. The Indo-Chinese region, besides 
S. Cheela and Bacha, includes three other species, S. Holospilus, 
Vigors, from the Phillippines and South China, S. Rufipectus, 
Gould, from Celebes, and S. Sadaensis, Schlegel, from the Sala 
Island, which latter species, however, Wallace considers to be 
“hardly more than a slight local modification,’ though where 
exactly distinct species begin, and local modifications end, is 
more than I pretend to know. 
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No. 40. Pandion Haliaetus, Livy. 
THE Osprey. 
I have no particulars of the nidification of this species in In- 
dia, but I saw the nest of one on a large tree, in the valley of 
the Surjoo, in Kumaon. 
Mr. R. Thompson says— 
“ T insert this bird here, because I believe its nest is to be 
found on the Ganges above Hurdwar, where I have seen the 
birds as late in the season as the middle of May. I think I 
shall be able to lay my hands on the nest at some time or 
other.” ; 
Of its breeding in the British Isles, Mr. Yarrell remarks— 
“The Osprey makes a large nest, sometimes on high trees, at 
others, on rocks or about old ruins near large pieces of water, 
and lays two or three eggs, which are generally hatched ‘in 
June. The eggs are about two inches and four lines long, by 
one inch ten lines in breadth, blotched and spotted over the 
