Letters, Extracts, Notices, S^-c. 573 



applied to the species mentioned below, wliich were only seen, 



and of which no specimens appear to have been collected 



for comparison^ are, I think, open to question. 



] . Gyps fulvus. — The common Gi/ps of the Himalayas is 

 G. hhnalai/ensis, Hume. G. fulvus {vevus=G.fulvescens, 

 Hume) may also occur, but the bird described by Jerdon 

 as G. fulvus (and Lieut, Cordeaux appears to have taken 

 his nomenclature chiefly from Jerdon) is G. himalayensis. 



5. PoLioAETUs icHTHYAETUs. — Licut. Cordcaux is very 

 probably right in suggesting that the fishing-eagles 

 noticed by Adams in Kashmir (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 471) 

 were wrongly identified as Halia'etus fulviventer (H. 

 macei of Adams = H. leucoryphus) ; but he is, I 

 think^ mistaken in identifying the birds seen by him — 

 " conspicuous for their grey heads, in some old birds 

 nearly white, all the feathers centred with dusky 

 shafts'^ — with P. ichthijaetus, which has whitish shaft- 

 stripes to the feathers of the head, and whicli^ like 

 Halia'etus leucoryphus (fulviventer), is not a Himalayan 

 Eagle, at all events in general. The Kashmir bird with 

 dusky shaft-stripes is evidently the common Himalayan 

 species, P. plumbeus, Hodgson, which is a large race of 

 the Malayan P. humilis. 



9. Iynx indica. — What the reddish- coloured Wiyneck can 

 have been it is very difficult to say ; but it has now 

 for more than twenty years been generally understood 

 that lynx indica was founded on a specimen of the 

 South-African /. pectoralis (Blyth, Ibis, 1873, p. 90 ; 

 Hume, Stray Feathers, vii. p. 459 ; Hargitt, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. xviii. p. 565). It is a matter for regret that a 

 specimen of the Wryneck seen was not secured and 

 preserved. 



16. Budytes citreola. — The species named has never been 

 found breeding in any part of the Himalayas, but the 

 nearly-allied Yellow Wagtail that bears the extraordinary 

 name of Motacilla (Budytes) citreoloides breeds com- 

 monly in Kashmir. The two were not distinguished 

 by Jerdon. 

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