APPENDIX I. 



Page 17. — Circus macrurus. An error in the distribution of this species, with regard to Spain, occurs at p. 19. 

 Col. Irby states, in his ' Birds of Gibraltar,' p. 33 : — " On the Spanish side it is not uncommon in spring near Seville. 

 Lord Lilford was the first to obtain it, in the spring of 1872." 



Page 47. — Neopus malayensis. This Eagle has lately been procured in Sumatra. Mr. Bock, the collector sent to 

 the island by the late Marquis of Tweeddale, met with it at the latter end of 1878, and it is included by Capt. Wardlaw 

 Ramsay in his list published in the ' Proc. Zool. Soc' for the present year, p. 14. Wallace is the only other naturalist 

 that has recorded it from the island. 



Page 51. — Spizaetus kelaarti. I see Mr. Hume, in his republication of my description of this species, considers its 

 validity still a matter of doubt, in spite of my examination of such a large series, and having given a woodcut of the 

 feathers. There can be no question about the matter ; and Mr. Gurney agrees with me that it is a good species. This 

 gentleman has received another example, sent by Mr. A. Whyte, of Kandy, in the summer of 1878 ; he informs me that 

 it is a very fine specimen. 



Page 55. — Spizaetus ceylonensis. "With regard to my explanation of the plate (p. 60), I regret to say that, after all, 

 the dark bird which was in the Zoological Gardens is not figured. It died, and I sent the skin to Mr. Keulemans ; and 

 after keeping it eight months, in spite of my repeated entreaties that the Plate might be done, he drew another bird, 

 which I had previously sent him, aud which does not represent the dark race at all ! 



Page 67. — Haliaetus leucogaster. Mr. Parker writes me of a nest he found at Kalpitiya, on April the 3rd, 1880 : — 

 "All round the inner edge of the nest were fish-bones, apparently arranged purposely; under the nest was the skull 

 of a small red deer, showing that these fine birds occasionally kill large game." 



Page 72. — Polioaetus ichiliyaetus. Mr. Parker says, " This Pish-Eagle is rare in the X.W. Province." He only once 

 saw it at NIkaweratiya. 



Page 80. — Milvus govinda. Captain Wardlaw Ramsay records the obtaining of this species in Sumatra, for the first 

 time, by Mr. Carl Bock in 1878. 



Page 94. — Baza ceylonensis. It has recently been shown by Mr. Gurney that this new species is not peculiar to 

 Ceylon, and I must therefore expunge it from the list of the " peculiar birds " of the island. Mr. Gurney writes, in 

 ' Stray Feathers,' 1879, p. 445, that he has compared the Baza from the Wynaad, sent him by Mr. Hume, with two 

 skins of Baza ceylonensis, and that he has no doubt it belongs to the same species. It will be remembered that Mr. Hume 

 was of this opinion at the time he received the specimen himself from the "Wynaad (see my footnote, p. 96). 



Page 98. — Baza lophotes. Mr. Parker found this species common on the road from Padeniya to Anaradhapura from 

 January till March 1880. On one occasion a flock of four were seen together. 



Page 101. — Falco peregrinus. During the present nesting-season (June 1880), I met with a pair of these birds 

 which had a nest at the celebrated Bird-rock, Merionethshire ; they were both in the immature spotted plumage. The 

 female flew round for five hours during my stay at the rock, perpetually uttering her querulous cry — Ira, lira, Tcra, Tcra. 

 As an instance of the powers of these birds, I may mention that I was informed by the keeper of the estate that he saw 



