124 NOTES. 



I suspect that these two references have been by some acci- 

 dent interchanged. 



At page 8, I pointed out the great difference in size exist- 

 ing between the two races of crested Goshhawks that inhabit, 

 respectively, the one Southern India and Ceylon, the southern 

 portion of the Malay Peninsular, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, &c, 

 and the other, Nepal, Sikhira, Bhootan, Assam, Oachar, Sylhet, 

 Tipperah, the Tributary Mehals, Pegu and Arracan, and, the 

 northern half at any rate of, Tenasserim (as now officially cons- 

 tituted) . 



Mr. Sharpe in his Cat. I., 106, had in general terms referred 

 to such a difference, and had remarked that if the two proved 

 distinct, the larger northern race would bear the name of 

 indicus. On the strength of this remark I adopted the name 

 indicus in the passage referred to. 



Further consideration leads me to doubt altogether the cor 

 rectness of this view. 



The bird was first described under a distinctive name, by 

 McClelland, P. Z. S., 1839, 153, as Spizaetus rufitinctus, and his 

 specific name must, I think, be retained. 



True his description is by no means so detailed as might be 

 desired, and, if it stood alone, might perhaps be set aside. But 

 Moore and Horsfield, in their Catalogue of Birds in the museum 

 of the Hon'ble E. I. C, seem to have identified the very speci- 

 men as trivirgatus ; that is to say the Assamese form of tri- 

 virgatus, and the Assamese birds are similar to the Sikhim 

 birds, in fact belong to the larger northern race. 



Even if this were set aside, which I do not think it could be, 

 Gray (I write subject to correction, for I have not at the moment 

 access to the work) seems to have described a Nipalese specimen, 

 A. and M. N. H., XI., 371, 1843, i.e., one of the larger race, 

 under the title of cristatus. 



Lastly, I have been unable to find that Hodgson ever published 

 a description of indicus. The reference given for this name is 

 Gray's Zool. Miscl., p. 81, 1844, but (though I have not the 

 work before me) I am next to certain that this page 81 is a 

 mere list of names. 



On the whole, I think, ornithologists will agree that if the 

 larger Northern race be accepted (as, so far as my present 

 information goes, I think it should be) as a distinct • species, 

 then it should stand under MeClelland's name Rufitinctus. 



Mr. Sharpe, in his Catalogue (I., 114) gives us as references 

 to Astur soloensis. 



