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of Le Vaillant, is an adult male, obtained about the breeding 

 season. No. 6 bis is a female (alwa} T s distinguished by less 

 white on the forehead and a less extent of chestnut on the 

 throat) about a mouth before the breeding time. No. 16 is 

 the young of the year. 



A SERIES of Carpophaga palumboides, received from the 

 Nicobars, confirms the view I recorded, Vol. II., p. 498, that 

 Janthanas nieobarica, Walden, was merely a stage of plumage 

 of my bird. This series comprises two adult males, with heads 

 not only much whiter than the type, but whiter even, I think, 

 than the figure in the Ibis. Two adult females, which have 

 somewhat less white on the head than the type, and two which 

 are Lord Waldens, nieobarica, and which are to my mind clearly 

 less mature specimens of palumboides. Any how we have now 

 typical examples of both forms, and forms intermediate between 

 these from both Andamans and Nicobars, and I confess that I 

 am at present quite unable to admit the validity of .7. nieobarica. 



At page 266, Vol. II., I mentioned that Moungking de- 

 clared that there was another large fruit pigeon, greyer than 

 bicolor, with a large red naked space round the eye, it is 

 clear now that the species referred to was palumboides, which, in 

 the adult male, has the head very white and the bare eye 

 space red. 



Mr. Frederic Wilson, better known as Mountaneer, recent- 

 ly sent me two superb specimens of Ketupa flavipes from the 

 valley of the Ganges, or as it is there called the Bhaghiratti, 

 high up in the Himalayas, not very far from Gangaotri. 

 To the best of my knowledge this species has never previous- 

 ly been obtained any thing like so far west. He also sent a 

 noble specimen of Bubo maximus, (not the pale form I have 

 hitherto obtained, but one as highly colored as European 

 specimens) and several Eagles of the chrysaetus type from the 

 same locality. I say of the chrysaetus type, because having 

 now more than a dozen specimens from the interior of the 

 Himalayas, I cannot but think that they are somewhat 

 different from the Golden Eagle of Scotland and France, with 

 which I have compared them ; but of this I shall write 

 separately. 



A splendid adult male of the Red-legged Hobby, sent me 

 from Cachar by Mr. J. Inglis, enables me to make certain that 

 the species we obtained in Eastern India is amurensis. So 

 far as I know, this is the first adult male obtained in India of 

 which we have any record, and according to my experience 

 the bird is quite the rarest of our Indian Raptores. 



