244 Capt. H. J. Walton on the 



India. At all seasons of the year Kites abounded round our 

 camps. Incubation began at Gyantse about the beginning 

 of May. The nest is the usual untidy affair, decorated 

 with rags, paper, and other rubbish. The young birds in a 

 nest in our garden at Gyantse were so clamorous for food 

 that they became a positive nuisance. The parents were 

 quite undismayed by the daily whistling of jingal bullets 

 through the branches of the tree on which the nest was built. 



88. ACCIPITER NISTTS. 



Accipiter nisus (Linn.) ; Blanf., Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, 

 iii. p. 402 ; Sharpe, Sci. Result. Yark. Miss,, Aves, p. 5 ; 

 Oust. N. Arch. Mus. (3) v. p. 128 ; Berez. & Bianchi, Aves 

 Exped. Potan. Gan-su, p. 30. 



No. 1939. (J adult. Gyantse, 12,000 feet, April 28, 1904. 



The Sparrow-Hawk is tolerably common in summer in all 

 the more fertile valleys. 



89. Falco subbuteo. 



Falco subbuteo Linn. ; Blanf., Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. 

 p. 422; Sharpe, Sci. Result. Yark. Miss., Aves, p. 10. 



No. 1962. ? . Gyantse, 12,000 feet, May 4, 1901. 



I saw several Hobbies at Gyantse in the spring ; but, as I 

 did not notice the bird anywhere else later in the year, 

 Is uspect that it does not breed in S. Tibet. 



90. Falco ^salon. 



^Esalon regulus (Pall.) j Blanf., Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. 

 p. 426; Berez. & Bianchi, Aves Exped. Potan. Gan-su, 



p. 42. 



Falco regulus Sharpe, Sci. Result. Yark. Miss., Aves, p. 10. 

 No. 2059. S adult. Gyantse, 12,000 feet, Oct. 5, 1904. 

 The specimen shot at Gyantse was the only Merlin that I 

 saw in Tibet. 



91. TlNNUNCULUS ALAUDARIUS. 



Tinnunculus alaudarius (Gm.) ; Blanf., Faun. Brit. Ind., 

 Birds, iii. p. 428. 



Cerchneis tinnunculus (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Sci. Result. Yark. 

 Miss., Aves, p. 12; Oust. N. Arch. Mus. (3) v. p. 127. 



