MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 8l3 



Key to the Species, 



a. Crown grey or brown dark-shafted ^-E.regulus. 



5. Crown chestnut ^. chicquera. 



There now remain but 4 genera comprising in all 7 species of the 

 Falconidm, viz., Erythropus, 1 species ; Tinnunculus, 2 species ; Miorohierax, 

 3 species ; and PoUohierax, 1 species. 



ICey to the Genera. 

 a. Sexes dissimilar (unlike Falcons) ; foot small, mid-toe 



about 1 inch Eeythkopus. 



a' Tail graduated, middle tail-feathers exceeding 

 outer by an inch or more ; upper parts largely 



brick-red Tinnunculcs. 



a" Size very small, wing under 5" Mickohierax, 



b' Tail nearly as long as wing Poliohiekax. 



The sexes are dissimilar in all except Microhierax in which they are the same. 

 TiNNUNCULUS — Kestrels — Key to the Species. 



a. Claws black... , T.alaudarius. 



(The Kestrel.) 



b. Claws whitish or pale horny , T. cenchris. 



(The Lesser Kestrel.) 

 MiCEOHiERAX — Falconets — Key to the Species. 

 Q. A broad white nuchal collar ; thigh-coverts ferru- 

 ginous ■^» eutolmus. 



(The Red-legged Falconet.) 



6. No white collar. 



a' Thigh-coverts and lower surface throughout 



white ^' melanoleucus. 



(The White-legged Falconet.) 



y Thigh-coverts black »•... M. fringillarius. 



(The Black-legged Falconet.) 

 PoUohierax insignis (Fielden's Hawk) is the only species of the genus. 

 Length of a female 11" ; wing 6". Found in Burma, Northern Tennaserim 

 and Western Siam. 



VizAGAPATAM District, C. H. DONALD. 



Madras, 

 December, 1902, 



No. II.— THE BANDED CRAKE (RALLINA SUPERCILIARIS). 

 In a Miscellaneous Note No. XXIX of No. 1, Vol. XIV of our Journal, I 

 recorded the occurrence of the above bird at Khandalla and also that I had 

 every reason for supposing it bred there. Mr. Bell, in the next number of the 

 Magazine, more or less confirmed my letter by stating that he had found the 

 bird breeding all round Karwar. Though I have not actually taken the bird 

 on the neat, I think I can pretty well claim to have eBtablished the fact that 



