Ornithological Notes from Afghanistan. 47 
I have made arrangements for collections to be made for me 
if circumstances shall permit. 
(7) GypaeEtus BARBATUS (Linn.). 
The Limmergeyer is very abundant, and, indeed, is the 
only Vulture which occurs in the Hariab district. Neophron 
ginginianus occurs in the Kurrum valley. 
(8) Fatco prrEGRINvS, 'Tunst. 
I once saw a Falcon which appeared to belong to this 
species. 
(17) Fatco tinnuncutus, Linn. 
Common. Breeding in May. 
(24) Accrprrer nisus (Linn.). 
Once observed. 
(56) Mitvus covinpa, Sykes. 
I refer the Afghan Kite provisionally to this species, not 
having obtained a specimen. It was next to useless to col- 
lect large birds, owing to the difficulty of getting even the 
smallest packages transported. 
(45) Bureo rerox. 
Accipiter ferox, S. G. Gmelin, Nov. Comm. Acad. Petrop. 
xv. p. 442, pl. x. (1770). 
Buteo ferox, Sharpe, Cat. Birds, vol. i. p. 176, pl. vin. 
Buteo nigricans, Severtzoff (vide Ibis, 1875, p. 103). 
The only specimen I obtained was a nestling, still partly 
in down, brought to me by an Afghan in July at Byan Khey]l, 
in the Hariab valley. 
Numerous different opinions having been urged as to the 
plumage of this Buzzard in the young and adult plumages 
respectively (conf. Sharpe, Joc. cit.; Gurney, Ibis, 1876, p. 
367 ; and Dresser, B. of E. pt. 38), I will subjoin a brief 
description of the specimen in question. It is in the mela- 
nistic plumage which occurs in specimens from the north- 
west, and which has been described by Severtzofft from Tur- 
kestan as B. nigricans (loc. cit.). Throughout of a blackish 
brown, deepest on the head, quill-feathers, abdomen, and 
lower tail-coverts ; the feathers on the crown with a black 
