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caudcB rectricibus duabus utrinque externis albis, extus niyvo 

 irregulariter marginatis et terminatis ; sex mediis nigris, supra 

 in pogonio exteriore ceneo tinctis : rostro nigro, pedibus fiavis : 

 long, tola 4"0, aim 2-3, caudce VA, rostri a rictii 0'85. 

 5 . Corpora subtus alba, plumis quibusdam lateralibus nitente 

 viridi viarginatis ; caudce rectricibus duabus lateralibus oninino 

 albis. 

 Hab. Veragua; Castello et Calovevora (Arce). 

 Obs. Affinis £. eximice et ejusdem formse, sed rectricum latera- 

 lium pogoniis externis albis distinguenda. 



Arce has sent two specimens of this apparently distinct species of 

 Eupherusa in one of his recent collections from Western Veragua. 

 The male is not quite adult, and would probably eventually lose all 

 traces of the irregular dark margins of the outer tail-feathers, as in 

 the female no traces of these spots appear. In E. eximia the whole 

 outer web of the two external rectrices is black, which renders the 

 two allies readily distinguishable. 



The present bird is the only second species of true Eupherusa we 

 have yet met with. Mr. Lawrence has assigned three other birds 

 to this genus — namely Eupherusa niveicauda (Ann. L. N. Y. viii. 

 p. 134), E. cupreiceps (ibid. p. 348), and E. nigriventris (Pr. Acad. 

 Phil. 1867, p. 232). Of these, the first, which is the same as 

 Thaumantias chionura, Gould (Cf. Salvin, P. Z. S. 18G7, ]). 156), and 

 the second are very closely allied, but are perhaps better placed in the 

 genus Thaumantias. Of the third we have not yet been fortunate 

 enough to obtain specimens. 



4. Sundry Notes on Indian Raptores. 

 By R. C. Beavan, Bengal Staff Corps, C.M.Z.S. &c. 



(Plate XXXIV.) 



Having in my papers in the ' Ibis,' 1865, p. 400, 1867, p. 430, and 

 1868, pp. 73 & 165, entitled "On various Indian Birds," omitted all 

 mention of the Birds of Prey that I have at various times come across 

 in India, I propose to supply, in a few short notes, the deficienc)', 

 and thus to form a complete record of my collections (with the ex- 

 ception of the large famihes of the game and wading tribes, of which 

 I hope to be able to treat hereafter). As in former papers, the num- 

 bers and nomenclature used are taken from Jerdon's ' Birds of India,' 

 our best authority on the subject. 



1. VuLTUR MONACHUS, Liuu. The Great Brown A^ulture. 



This large bird appears regularly every cold weather at Umballah, 

 which is the only station in the North-west Provinces of India in 

 which I have ever noticed it. It is not common, but may frequently 

 be seen high in the air soaring, and is easily distinguishable from 

 the other species of its kind both by its much larger size and its 

 peculiar black appearance. It is much more wary, too, when on 



