462 Mr. J. H. Gumey's Notes on 



situated above the blackish dorsal spots and running into 

 their upper edge. This race inhabits Japan^ and, according 

 to Mr. Swinhoe C^Ibis/ 1863, p. 211), is also found in Formosa. 

 I have examined male birds exhibiting the peculiar markings 

 of this race from Ningpo and Amoy, in China ; and I observe 

 that Col. Prejevalsky speaks of having found " Tinnunculus 

 japonicus, Schleg.," resident in some parts of Mongolia *, 

 though I think it possible that the Mongolian birds here 

 alluded to may belong to the race which I should refer to 

 T. inte)'stinctus rather than to T. japonicus. 



It may be well here to add a few words as to the Kestrels 

 found in Hainan by the late Mr. Swinhoe, who, writing of his 

 visit to that island in ' The Ibis ' for 1870, p. 84, remarks : — 

 '' I procured specimens [of Kestrels] both there and in the 

 small island of Naochow, which do not appear to differ from 

 European examples. ^^ Two of these Hainan specimens, ap- 

 parently males not fully adult, are now in the possession of 

 Mr. Seebohm. They are both of them rather small birds and 

 rather dark in colour, being, as it seems to me, referable to 

 T. interstinctus rather than to T. alaudarius. 



The following is a summary of measurements of Kestrels 

 taken by myself. The letters B.M. and N.M. denote that 

 the specimens to which they are attached are preserved in 

 the British and Norwich Museums : — 



Maxes. 

 T. alaudarius, typical 



pale race. Wing. 



inches. 



Norfolk, collection of J. H. Gurney, Jun. 9-65 



Sicily, N.M 9-80 



Crimea, N.M 9-70 



Senegal, N.M 9-(35 



Nubia, N.M.t 10-40 



Abyssinia, N.M 9-80 



Ditto, B.M 9-95 



Mombasa, N.M .' 9-30 



Erzeroum, N.M 10-10 



* Vide Translation of ''Notes on Birds of Mongolia" in Rowley's 

 Orn. Miscellany, vol. ii. p. 151. 

 t This unusually long-winged specimen is in full adult male plumage. 



