140 NOTES. . 



Was there no one at the Zoological Society, to suggest to 

 the Editor, when he published, P. Z. S., 1876, 310, a lovely 

 plate of a falcon, that the correct name of the species he 

 was figuring might perhaps be Falco barbarus, and not 

 F. babylonicus ? 



I confess that I have never seen a barbarus exactly in the 

 plumage figured, about the head, but still less has one ever 

 seen any such babylonicus and of these we have now seen plenty; 

 but the dimensions W. 10'7, fix the species. 



The smallest wing of babylonicus and that was a young 

 male, that I have ever met with, measured 11*87. 



As for Mr. Anderson who has led the P. Z. S. thus astray, 

 I blush for him, he who is teaching all us poor ignorami all 

 about the Raptores ! why did he not turn to S. F., I, 2 J, 

 whei'e he would have found the dimensions of a male barbarus 

 killed in Cutch precisely agreing with those given by him ? 



Capt. Butler writes: " Captain Bishop informs me that in 

 January 1873, whilst shooting near Bagdad in Turkish Meso- 

 potamia, his party bagged five Woodcocks (Scolopaos rusticola, 

 Lin.) in the date groves skirting the town. There is no doubt 

 whatever about the species as he showed me the tail and wing 

 feathers. Mr. James, C.S., in a letter just received, also 

 mentions three Woodcocks (one shot and two others flushed) 

 as having been met with in the North Canara Jungles." 



With reference to what I said at page 94, about the 

 possible identity of Cisticola Tytleri and melanocep/iala, and 

 the occurrence of both in Dacca, I should have noticed that 

 Tytleri also occurs (as well as melanocepliala) in Munipur, 

 where Godwin-Austen obtained a specimen, which he compared 

 with the type in the Indian Museum. He considers it " a 

 very distinct species, with very pale ochre, head and breast, 

 and tail black both above and below/' vide J. A. S. B., XLV., 

 Pt. II, 199, 1876. 



