LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. 503 



The Norwich Museum possesses a Spizdetus from Japan and 

 another from Formosa ; both these appear to me to be the true 

 S. nipalensis; and, as the Japanese specimen is fully adult, there 

 can, I think, be no doubt that, in this case at least, the identi- 

 fication is correct. 



The Norwich Museum also possesses examples of Falco pere- 

 grinus from Japan. The adults appear to me to be undis- 

 tinguishable from European specimeus ; but young birds from 

 Japan are always, so far as I have seen, very dark about the 

 head, the color of which, especially about the crown and sides, 

 is a blackish brown, resembling- the tint of the corresponding 

 parts in young peregvinus from the north-west of North 

 America. 



J. H. GURNEY. 



Sir, 



I have much pleasure in adding the following species 

 collected by myself, at Khandalla, in 1871, to the list published 

 by Kevd. S. B. Fairbank in Stray Feathers, Vol., IV., p. 250. 



104.— Dendrochelidon coronatus, Tick. 



I shot a single specimen of the Indian-crested Swift at 

 Khandalla in the jungles below the reversing station in May 

 1871. I never observed it on any other occasion. 



133.— Ceyx tridactyla, Pall. 



I noticed two or three pairs of this lovely species in a rocky 

 nullah running from the reversing station down the ghats 

 through densely wooded jungles ( Vide Stray Feathers, Vol. II., 

 p. 455). 



165.— Hemicirens canente, Less. 



I shot a single specimen of the Heart-spotted Wood pecker 

 in the same jungles during my visit to Khandalla in May 1871. 

 There were a pair of them at the time, but the cock bird es- 

 caped. 



798.— Chalcophaps indicus, Linn. 



The Bronze-winged Dove is another species of which I only 

 saw one solitary individual, and that I shot below the reversing 

 station in the same jungles. 



E. S. Butler, Captain, 



83rd Regiment. 



