Notes. 319 



PoUornis Uventer, T}em.=pallidus, hess, the occurrence of which 

 on the very northern frontier of Burmah, appears to me note- 

 worthy. 



Temminck originally g-aveitfrom Celehes, Sumatra, Java, and 

 t/ie Continent of India. There is no reason to believe that it 

 ever occurs in India Proper, but it certainly, as we now see, is 

 found on the Continent of Asia, well inland. P. teesa is common 

 at Thyetmyo ; and in 184-5, Dr. Heifer sent a young specimen 

 of P. poliogenys (B. pygmseus, Blyth,) from Tenasserim. 



I HAVE a Spizaetws, from Travancore, that altogether puzzles 

 me. Its leading characteristics are 



A CHEST, 4 inches long,blackish, not tipped white, brown at 

 base, 



A WING, 14 inches, 



A TARSUS, 3" 9 inches, 



A TAIL, pale brown, with one subterminal 1*5 inch black- 

 ish brown bar, a 3 inch space, and three other 0"6 to 0"75 

 inch bars, about 1 inch apart, and no others, or any trace of 

 such. 



I am sure any one who has studied this group will admit that 

 this is a puzzler, especially coming from 'i'ravancore. 



We may first set aside caligatus, Raffles, which has usually 

 no crest, never one more than 3 inches in length, of which the 

 smallest male has a wing 15, (running sometimes to 17 even 

 in the male) with a tarsus, 3*5. 



Also cirrhaiits, Gmelin, which has the crest feathers tipped 

 white in the youngest birds, and a wing of 15*25 in the smallest 

 male. 



Also nipalensis, Hodgson, which also always has the crest 

 white or paler tipped, and in which the wing of the smallest male 

 exceeds 17 "5. 



This seems a fit place for recalling attention to the distinction 

 which I first pointed out (Rough Notes, page 208,) between ni- 

 palensis and the two previous species, and which ornithologists in 

 India persist in overlooking, sending me continually the young 

 of nipalensis as cirrhatus. 



" In cirrliatits and caligains, the feathering of the feet ends, 

 more or less above the division of the toes. In some specimens 

 fully an eighth of an inch of the foot is left bare, in others 

 the feathering, especially of the central portion of the foot, 

 comes down all but level with the division of the toes. . In ni- 

 palensis, on the other hand, the feathering runs distinctly down 

 the middle toe, I'eaching furthest down exteriorly ; so that in 



