188/.] MR. R. B. SHARPE ON SYRNIUM MAINGAYI. 4/1 



distinct collar ; scapulars with slightly indicated whitish shaft-lines, 

 several of them white externally, narrowly barred with rufous-brown ; 

 lesser wing-coverts uniform chocolate-brown ; median and greater 

 coverts rufous-brown, with reddish-buff cross bars, the ends slightly 

 vermiculated with dusky dots ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 nearly uniform blackish, with slight indications of rufous-brown bars 

 near the ends ; quills dark chocolate-brown, regularly barred with 

 rufous-brown, paler on the outer web of the primaries ; upper tail- 

 coverts chocolate-brown, numerously barred with reddish-brown 

 cross bands, whitish on some of them ; tail-feathers brown, crossed 

 with well-marked bars of fulvous, ten in number on the centre 

 feathers and twelve on the outside ones ; crown of head and hind 

 neck uniform chocolate-brown ; lores black, as well as the feathers 

 around the eye, surmounted by au eyebrow of rufous, impinging on 

 the ibrehead ; ear-coverts and cheeks chestnut-rufous, slightly fulves- 

 cent on the lower parts of the latter ; the whole of the rufous face 

 surrounded by a chocolate-brown ruff, joined to the chin, which is 

 chocolate-brown also, followed by a band of white across the lower 

 throat ; fore neck and remainder of under surface of body tawny 

 buff, regularly and narrowly barred with dark brown, some feathers 

 with intermediate white spaces instead of buff ; thighs obscure brown ; 

 under tail-coverts buffy white, with narrow brown cross bars ; under 

 wing-coverts and axillaries rather deeper buff than the breast, barred 

 with darker brown ; a patch of dark brown near the edge of the 

 wing on the outer greater coverts ; quills below dark brown, barred 

 with tawny buff, broader on the inner web. Total length 21 inches, 

 wing 14-3, tail 8-4. 



Both Captain Piawill's specimens are more uniform on the mantle 

 than the type, and one of these shows indications of uniformity on 

 the chest, as is usual with /S. newarense when it gets very old. 

 The wing in both examples is 13*1 inches. 



Hab. Neighbourhood of Malacca. 



a. Ad. sk. Malacca, July 1877 Hume Collection. 



{W.Davison). (Type of species.) 



b, c. Ad. sk. Malacca. Capt. Stackhouse 



Pinwill [P.]. 



I also give a list of the specimens of Syrnium newarense and S. 

 indrani now in the Museum, with remarks on and measurements of 

 each individual specimen, showing how difficult it is to draw the line 

 between these two species, notwithstanding that the typical forms of 

 each are well characterized and distinct from each other. 



2. Syrnium newarense. 



Sijr7iium iiewarense, Hodgs. Icon. ined. Accipitres, pi. 34 (no. 59) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. ii. p. 281 (1875); Hume, Str. F. 1879, p. 83; 

 Scully, t. c. p. 229. 



Bulaca newarensis, David & Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 46 (1877) ; 

 Blanf. Str. F. 1877, p. 483. 



Syrnium indranee, Blylh, B. Burm. p. 6" (1875); Walden, Ibis, 



