480 ON FALCO BABYLONICUS AND FALCO BARBARUS. 
841.—Gallinago coelestis, Frenzl. 
There were a few fantails to be picked up here and there in 
the swamps, but never more than one or two couple in the 
same place. They were always very fine birds. Four shot 
on the 3rd April weighed twenty ounces. The last one I saw 
was on May 4th. 
*853.—Lobivanellus indicus, Bodd. 
Heard this bird calling overhead at night at Pittur, but 
never saw it. 
*892.—Totanus ochropus, Lin. 
One shot May 4th with the snipe in the Pittur valley. 
913.—Hypotenidia striata, Lin. 
Got a female on the 4th April at Pulungi, when looking for 
snipe. 
975.—Podiceps minor, Gm. 
Several in the lake at Kodikanal. 
(Ea “ Ibis.” ) 
On Sales babylonicus and Falco barbarus, 
By Joun Henry GURNEY. 
In “ The Ibis” for 1882, p. 439, I wrote respecting Falco 
babylonicus that it seemed chiefly to differ from F. barbarus 
by its larger dimensions, and I added that, at that time, I 
believed I had never seen an adult male of F. babylonicus. 
Since then the British Museum has acquired—partly through 
the liberality of Mr. Hume and partly through that of other 
donors—a very fine series of Falco babylonicus, which I have 
recently had an opportunity of examining, arriving, as the 
result, at the conclusion that, whilst the females of F. baby- 
lonicus are decidedly larger than those of F. barbarus, the 
males of F. babylonicus differ but little, either in size or 
colour, from F’. barbarus, in which latter species the propor- 
tionate distinction of size between the sexes is less than in 
F. babylonicus. I observe, however, that the adult males of 
F. babylonicus, when compared with the few African adults 
