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have at last determined satisfactorily Microhierax cosrulescens, 

 of Lin. ex Edwards. 



Should this be the case, the common Himalayan species will 

 perhaps bear Hodgson's name of eutolmus, on the strength of 

 Jerclon's description, B. of I. Vol. I., 42, 1862. I cannot find that 

 Hodgson published any description of his eidobnus, but he may 

 have done so. The name would seem to have appeared first, in 

 Gr. Zool. Miscl. 1845, p. 81, as one of a long list, sine descr. 

 And again it was mentioned \u the Gen. Birds, T. 21, (er. entol- 

 mus) ; but was this name ever published together with a des- 

 cription, before the B. of I. appeared ? 



Blyth no doubt, J. A. S. B. XI. 789, mentioned the species 

 as " bengalensis of the old authors" and in Vol. XII., 180, 

 1843, described Nepal specimens, under this name, but this was no 

 original title of Blyths ; he was clearly adopting Brissou's name, 

 Suppl. 20, No. 38, (nominally published 1760, but probably the 

 supplement actually issued much later) which is apparently 

 prelinnsBan, and anyhow is avowedly founded on Edward's 

 figure, aud Linnosus' ccerulescens, of the S. N. 10th edition ; 

 so that if coerulescens does not apply neither, will Bly th's bengal- 

 ensis, derived avowedly as this is from the old authors/' whose 

 bengalensis = ccerulescens. 



In his Catalogue, already so often referred to, I., 377. Mr. 

 Sharpe gives Falco atriceps, nobis, as a synonyme of F.peregrinus, 

 or as he prefers to call it, F. communis. In the absence of a 

 sufficient series, it seems to me quite open to any one to uuite 

 this species with peregrinator, but 1 hardly think it can be 

 referred to peregrinus. 



Mr. Sharpe, at p. 378, gives a description of Falco atriceps, 

 apparently an original one, and I should judge, not of atriceps, 

 the characteristic of which is (see* Ibis, 1869, 356) to have 

 " head, nape, cheek, stripe, cheeks and car-coverts" all forming 

 one homogeneous, unbroken black cap. Hence the trivial name 

 I assigned to it, (Rough Notes, I., 58,) " The Black-cap 

 Falcon." 



I have consistently from the first pointed out that it has 

 narrow bars on the inner webs of the primaries, like peregrina- 

 tor, which fact alone is sufficient to prove that it cannot be 

 peregrinus, in which these are invariably comparatively broad. 



I see by the way that Mr. Sharpe expresses some doubts as 

 to whether the Japan race might not possibly prove distinct. 

 If so, it would stand, I suppose, as orientals, Gm., which was 

 founded on Latham's " Oriental falcon," a young bird that flow 

 on board ship near the coast of Japan. 



