418 Notes. 



Since descril)ing' tins now species (v?'^^ ante/p. 17^) I liate 

 met with a second example among-st some rejected duplicates of 

 my friend Mr. Mandelli's collection. This second specimen was, 

 undoubtedly^, procured in the Doars^, helow JDarjeeling^ a conti* 

 nuation eastward of the Terai. Dr. Jerdon g-ave me the type 

 specimen along" with a number of Darjeeling- birds, and althoug-h 

 he believed that he had procured it in Burmah (not ten of the 

 two hundi-ed birds he gave me bore any tickets) I have no 

 doubt now that it also was obtained in the neighbourhood of 

 Darjeeling, The second specimen corresponds ji9/-gci«(?/^y with the 

 first, but is in a better state of preservation. 



I suspend my own opinion as to this identification. Certainly 

 neither «f my birds are young- ones. 



In regard to Procarduelis saturates, Blanford, he tells us that 

 he has compared this with the types of P. pulclierrimus , Hodg*., 

 in the British Museum, aiid finds them to be distinct. At the 

 same time he adds that his own name saturatus will not stand, 

 tbe bird having been previously described HlB Carjoodacios Edwardsi, 

 Verreaux, from Eastern Thibet, (Nouv. Archives du Musee, Bull, 

 vi. 1870, p. 58.) 



<( Pyrrlndauda affinis, Blyth, which I obtained near Kurra- 

 chee,'^ observes Mr. Blanford, " proves to be identical with P. 

 melanauchen, Cabanis. I have compared a specimen from 

 Baluchistan, with the type of Blyth's species in Mr. Gould's col- 

 lection, and with specimens of P. ■melanaucheii collected by myself 

 on the Coast of the Red Sea ; I have no faith in the occurrence 

 of this species in Madras." 



Referring to errors in synonomy, Mr. Blanford points out, that 

 Sir A. Smith's name Circus Swainsoni has priority by two years, 

 having been first published in the South African Quarterly 

 Journal for 1830, p. 384, whilst Sykes^s name C. jMlUdus ^^b 

 not published before 1832. (P. Z. S., p. 80.) 



At page 160 ANTE, I pointed ont what I considered an un^ 

 failing rule for separating the female and immature birds of 

 Circus Sivainsoni, Smith, and C. cyancns, L. Mr. Howard 

 Saunders points out another difierence, C. aruginosus, tycmeus, 

 $pilo7iotus, melanoleiicus , and others have the second, third, fourth, 

 and fifth primaries emarginated on the outer web, while Swain^ 

 seni, Smith, and Cineraceus, Mont., have the emarginations only 

 on the second, third, and fourth, and not on the fifth. Then again 

 in ^' Swainsoni, the emargination of the second primary begins 

 on a level with the wing coverts, so that the bulge or widening' 

 of the outer web is almost or entirely hidden ; but iu cineraceus, 



