OF NORTH-EASTERN CACHAR. 



Two males of the ordinary type and an excessively pale 

 female with the brown bars on the upper surface and on the 

 tail exceeding- the interspaces in width. 



18.— Tinnunculus pekinensis, Swinh, ? T. Inglisi, Sp, 



Nov. 



"On the 10th of March last, I came across 5 of these birds 

 hawking over a patch of thin grass. I secured one of them ; 

 I have not again seen this variety. — J. I." 



A single specimen clearly belonging to the same group as 

 cenchris and pekinensis has been sent me by Mr. Inglis. It 

 is a young male not fully adult, as the tail is rufescent and bar- 

 red, and the head though becoming bluish is still tinged and 

 washed with cinnamon. It is with some hesitation, that I refer it 

 to pekinensis. I know very little of the Eastern Lesser Kestrel, 

 and this specimen, possibly owing to its immaturity, entirely 

 wants the supposed characteristic of pekinensis, the whole of 

 the wing coverts as well as the tertiaries, scapulars, and inter- 

 scapulary region being bright cinnamon. The wing measures 

 9'6, which is the dimension given by Mr. Sharpe for pekinensis, 

 but the tarsus is only 1*2, which corresponds better with the 

 dimensions of cenchris. The claws are whitish. 



I am strongly inclined to believe that if pekinensis be really 

 a good species, this specimen also represents a distinct species, 

 hitherto undescribed, and if so, it may stand as Inglisi. 



It seems specially characterised by a broad bare space round 

 the eyes, and by a conspicuous dark moustachal streak. 



Length, about 14*0 ; tail, 6*5 ; bill from gape, straight to point 

 0'73 ; Aving and tarsus, as above ; mid toe and claw, Tl. 



The legs and feet appear to have been a very pale yellow ; 

 claws yellowish horny, brownish towards the tips ; cere yellow ; 

 bill blue, yellowish towards the base ; lores whitish. 



A conspicuous black or blackish moustachal streak from the 

 anterior angle of the bare elipse in which the eye is situated, 

 more than 0*75 inch in length ; cheeks behind this stripe min- 

 •gled grey and blackish ; ear-coverts similar but darker, giving 

 the appearance of a faintly indicated second stripe from the 

 posterior angle of the bare elipse. Sides of the neck blue grey 

 streaked blackish, and most of the feathers, especially towards 

 the base of the neck, margined and tinged with chestnut ; chin 

 and throat white ; feathers at the base of the throat tinged rufous 

 at the tips and with a narrow black shaft stripe there. Fore- 

 head, crown, occiput and nape, dirty blue grey, the shafts of 

 the feathers of the anterior portion of the head darker and the 

 feathers of the posterior portion with distinct but very narrow 

 blackish shaft stripes ; those of the nape similar, but the shaft 



