S18 Notes. 



on their inner webs. The second to fifth inclusive, feebly 

 Binuated on the outer web. 



The first thi-ee quills have the whole of both webs above the 

 notches and emai'ginations pure white, while the terminal por- 

 tions are an uniform wood brown, only slig-htly greyer on the 

 outer webs. The rest of the primaries are brown towards the 

 tips, where they are narrowly margined paler, white on the rest 

 of the inner, pale grey brown on the outer webs, with numerous 

 moderately broad, transverse brown bars on both webs. The 

 rest of the quills similar, but duller and more uniformly coloured, 

 less grey on the outer, more strongly suffused with brown on 

 the inner webs, and hence the transverse bars less apparent, (in 

 fact scarcely apparent at all in the closed wing ;) the scapulars 

 and coverts are unicolorous with the secondaries, but the lesser 

 and a few of the median coverts are margined more or less con- 

 spicuously with rufous buff. 



I do not in the least doubt that this is one stage of the 

 veritable A. hemiptilopus, but it is a stage never yet described, 

 and the extension of the white over both webs of the first three 

 primaries above the notches and emarginations, a most note- 

 worthy fact. Is this an individual peculiarity? Is it charac- 

 teristic of this stage only, or is it persistent? and if so, how 

 has it escaped notice ? or lastly, can there be two rough legged 

 buzzards in the Himalayas? Should this latter, which I cannot 

 at all believe, by any chance prove to be the case, this white 

 winged species should stand as leucoptera, nobis. 



Peocarduelis Mandellii, nobis, described ante, page 14, 

 will not stand. Blandford has already described it under the 

 name of P. eubescens which must stand. This is no fault of 

 mine, do what I will, I cannot get my proceedings and transac- 

 tions of the Zoo. ; I have written frantically about this to my 

 bookseller till / am tired, and to Dr. Sclater until — he is pro- 

 bably tired of me. Even now I should have known nothing 

 about it, had not Dr. Stoliczka kindly lent me Part III. of the 

 Proceedings for 1871, which have never jet been sent to me, 

 in which rubescens appears. It is really too bad, but what can 

 one do ? I should like to hang some body, (I don''t care who, I 

 am not cruel by disposition) pour encourager les autres, but 

 doubts have been suggested to me as to the legality of such a 

 course, and so I suppose I must even grin and bear it. 



Amongst the collection of birds from Thyetmyo, most kindly 

 sent me for examination by Captain Fielden, I find one species 



