on the Birds of China. 279 



Strix CANDIDA Tickcll. 



Strix Candida Rickett, Ibis, 1894, p. 222, 1900, p. 57. 



I have a young bird in down taken in central Fohkien in 

 October 1907. There is a handsome adult example in the 

 Styan collection at the British Museum, which is also from 

 central Fohkien. 



NisAETus PAsciATUS (VieilL). 



Nisaetus fasciatus LaTouche & Rickett, Ibis, 1905, p. 35. 



Two eggs were taken in March on the coast of Fohkien 

 near Foochow. The female, a neai'ly adult bird, was sent 

 to me together with the eggs. These are ovate in shape and 

 measure 2-75 x 2-00 in. and 2-65 x 2-00 in. One o£ them is 

 practically pure white, rather discoloured in parts with nest- 

 stains ; the other shows a very few faint yellowish-brown 

 spots on the larger end. 



ACCIPITER AFFINIS HodgSOU. 



Accijnter affinis Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1896, p. 107. 



A handsome female was shot during the winter 1908-9 

 in central Fohkien, and is now in the Shanghai Museum 

 Collection. The wing measures 8*45 inches. This example 

 is very similar to a slightly younger bird collected by me 

 in southern Formosa in 1893. 



Pernis elliotti. 



Pernis elliotti Jerdon, Madras Journ. Lit. & Sci. x. p. 74 

 (T839). 



I have a female example of the Indian Honey-Buzzard 

 shot near Foochow on 14 September 1911. This example, 

 which has a small but well-defined crest, agrees in plumage 

 with several female examples from Shaweishan. 



[ Cf. Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1897, p. 213. The name F. ptilo- 

 rhynchus, Temm., which is antedated by P. cristatus, Cuv., 

 is the proper name for the long-crested island form of 

 Honey-Buzzard found in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the 

 Philippine Islands. The short-crested Indian and Chinese 

 form is a very different bird, and may be recognized at a 

 glance from the island bird by having the under surface 



