'9^9'] from South Annum and Cochin China. 417 



1 J , 1 2 ad. Traug Bom, Cochin China. 5-6 June^ 1918. 



Male. T. L. 600 ; W. 423 inm. 



Female. T. L. 625 ; W. 418 (worn) mm. 



Without very much larger material than is available it is 

 impossible to discuss the races of Serpent-Eagle inhabiting 

 Indo-China and the Malay Peninsula ; at least three and 

 probably four forms appear to occur in the area. 



25. Baza lophotes (Temm.). 

 Kloss, Ibis, 1918, p. 88. 



1 c?/l ? • Daban,650ft., S. Annam. 13-15 March, 1918. 

 "Iris dark ; bill lavender-grey, tip blackish; feet plum- 

 beous or greenish plumbeous.^' 



Male. T. L. 320; W . 226 ; crest 47 mm. 



Female. T. L. 315 ; W. 236 ; crest 55 mm. 



The female is apparently not quite adult and has the black 

 [)atch on the abdomen barred and edged with butfy and the 

 brown bars on the flanks very distinct. 



26. Microhierax eutolmus (Blyth). 

 Microhierax ccerulescens Oustalet, p. 235. 



2 c? ad. Daban, 650 ft., S. Annam. 18-23 March, 1918. 

 " Iris brown ; bill and cere black, base greenish grey ; 



feet blackish leaden.'* 



T.L. 168, 158 ; W. 102, 97 mm. 



These s[)ecimens represent nearly the southern limit of 

 the species; it is not found in Hainan. 



27. Hypotriorchis severus severus (Horsf.j. 



Falco severus Horsf. ; lilanf. Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. 

 1895, p. 423; McGregor, Man. Philipp. Birds, i. 1909, 

 p. 243. 



1 S ad., 1 J vix ad., 1 ? vix ad. Trang Bom, Cochin China. 

 1-2 June, 1918. 



Male. T. L. 280 (ad.), 275 (vix ad.); W.218, 217 mm. 



Female. T. L. 270; W. 216 mm. 



All thi-ce specimens are nearly adult, though those we 

 have recorded as hardly so are streaked and spotted with 

 black beneath ; the primaries are narrowly tipped and edged 



