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48. Poxiornis TEESA, Frankl. 
This Buzzard, as is well known, lays absolutely colourless eggs of 
the Goshawk type; the occurrence, therefore, of aclutch of coloured 
eggs will doubtless prove interesting to oologists. One of these eggs 
is very well marked with reddish-brown blotches at the obtuse end, 
covering nearly half the surface of the egg; the second is faintly 
marked with light greyish-brown spots at the small end, somewhat 
in the form of a zone; and the third has still fainter indications of 
colouring-matter at the same end. 
50. Crrcus cyANEvus, Linn. 
Admitted into previous lists through an oversight. 
51. Crrcus paLLipus, Sykes. 
I shot a fine male a few days ago in the act of carrying away a live 
Partridge. 
This Harrier lives chiefly on small birds, and is more game-like 
than its congener, the Marsh-Harrier. 
56. Mitvus Govinpa, Sykes. 
56 bis. Minvus masor, Hume (=. melanotis, Temm.). 
56 tris. Mitvus PAaLustRIs, nobis (=juv. M. govinda, Sykes). 
I take this opportunity of withdrawing the “small Marsh-Kite” 
described at page 142, J. A. S. for 1873, as it appears to be the 
young of the common Govinda Kite, which is subject to considerable 
variation in size as well as in colour. We have, after all, only two 
species of Kite in India, viz. the large migratory one (JZ. melanotis) 
and the resident one (M. govinda). 
Mr. Brooks is of opinion that Sykes’s measurements refer to M. 
melanotis, and not to M. govinda, and that the term M. affinis, 
Gould, should be applied to the common resident bird. This may 
be correct enough ; but I doubt whether this complicated nomencla- 
ture will be generally adopted. 
*74, EPHIALTES PENNATUS, Hodg. 
*74 bis, EpHiaLTes suNrA, Hodg. 
Until specimens in a transitional stage have been procured, and 
their identity thus established, it appears advisable to keep these two 
little Owls distinct for the present. Of each species I have obtained 
three live specimens; the red ones are most lovely little creatures. 
They were caught with bird-lime in September and October last, during 
cloudy weather, when they seemed to sally forth in search of food at 
all hours of the day. I kept them alive in a large cage for nearly a 
week, in company with several Ephialtes griseus, feeding them on 
crickets, mice, and occasionally with raw meat. 
My first red Scops was captured on 13th of September last, in the 
Station Park. Some boys, who were in the habit of catching birds 
for me by means of a long bamboo fishing-rod, the tip of which was 
forked and smeared with bird-lime, informed me in great haste (one 
