POLIOHIERAX INSIGNIS. 



By ARTHUR, Marquis of TWEEDDALE, F.R.S. 



(Plate cm.) 



Polihierax insignis, Walden, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 627 ; Ibis, 1872, pp. 467* & 471. 



Lithofalco feildeni, Hume, Pr. A. S. B. 1872, pp. 70 & 71. 



Poliohierax insignis, Walden, Sharpe, Cat. Accipitres, Brit. Mus. 1874, p. 370. 



Polihierax feildeni, Hume, Str. F. 1875, pp. 14, 19, & 269. 



Polihierax insignis, Walden, Sclater, Str. P. 1875, p. 417. 



Poliohierax insignis, Walden, BIyth, Birds of Burma, 1875, p. 59. no. 14. 



The subject of the accompanying Plate was first discovered by my friend 

 the late Major Lloyd, Assistant Commissioner at Tongoo, in British 

 Burma. Examples of both sexes were sent by him to me in the month of 

 August 1871. As I was unfortunately prevented from exhibiting them 

 myself at the next scientific meeting of the Zoological Society, on the 7th of 

 November, I intrusted them to Mr. Sclater, with a short description and a 

 proposed title— the designation adopted above. Mr. Sclater exhibited the 

 specimens, read my notes on them, and before the meeting announced the 

 title I proposed. In due course these facts were recorded in the ' Proceedings ' 

 of the Zoological Society (I. c). 



In the month of May 1872 Mr. Hume, having received specimens of the 



* In the British-Museum Catalogue (vol. i. Accipitres), page 200 is quoted in error. 



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