Mr. R. B. Sharpe's Catalogue of Accipitres. 273 



trice to the right the lowest spot is only '44 from the tip, 

 this spot being a very small one and thei'e being no corre- 

 sponding spot on the left-hand rectrice ; in the other Nepalese 

 specimen the lowest spot on each of the external pair of rec- 

 trices is distant "50 from the tip of the feather, both these 

 spots are extremely small, and that on the right-hand rectrice 

 is very indistinct, and in fact nearly obsolete. 



The only specimen of M. eutolmus which I have seen from 

 the more southern parts of India is one that I purchased 

 many years ago for the Norwich Museum from Mr. Lead- 

 beater, at that time a leading birdstuffer in London, who 

 informed me, and, I believe, correctly, that it had been 

 obtained at Bangalore. In this specimen the nuchal collar is 

 as narrow as in examples from Nepal, the frontal band and 

 the white markings on the sides of the head are intermediate 

 in width between these and specimens from Burmah ; but the 

 tail resembles the latter, the lowest spot on each rectrice of 

 the outer pair being well marked and only '40 of an inch 

 from the tip of the feather. 



I may add that the Norwich Museum possesses an example 

 from Camboja which does not differ from those obtained in 

 Burmah. 



The changes of plumage which occur in M. eutolmus have 

 been carefully explained by Mr. Hume in ' Stray Feathers,' 

 vol. V. p. 127 ; and some interesting details of the nidification 

 of both this species and oi M. fringillarius will be found at 

 p. 80 of the same volume. 



With regard to M. erythrogenys, the species peculiar to 

 the Philippine Islands, I may remark that it was received 

 and recorded by the late Lord Tweeddale from three of the 

 islands of that group, Luzon, Zebu, and Mindanao*. I exa- 

 mined the female specimen received by Lord Tweeddale from 

 Monte Alban in Luzon, and found the wing-measurement 4-3 

 inches ; and I find that in two specimens (sex undetermined) 

 from Manilla in the Norwich Museum the corresponding 

 measurements are respectively 4*3 and 4'4 inches. The female 

 obtained by Lord Tweeddale from Zebu was recorded as 

 * Vide P. Z, S. 1877, pp. 689, 757, 937. 



