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British Museum, labelled Warry-atoo from the Chittagong hills : and I may add, 

 that a Neilghierry specimen of this animal which Mr. Elliot shewed me, at Madras, 

 was so much finer than that mounted in the Museum of the Zoological Society, 

 with horns so much larger and longer, that if I had not a very perfect recollection of 

 the latter, in addition to possessing drawings of it, I might perhaps have hesitated 

 in identifying them as the same ; the head now sent, however, has the horns about 

 equally developed with those on the Zoological Society's specimen. 



The Birds presented consist of , 



*Aquila imperialis, Temminck, vel Heliaca, Savigny; A. chrysaetos of Mr. 

 Jerdon's Catalogue. 



*Aq. VindUana, Franklin, P. Z. S. 1831, p. 114: young. 



*Aq. pennata ; Falco pennatus, Auct. ; Spizestus milvoides, Jerdon : young male. 



Spizcetus grandis; Nisaetus grandis, Hodgson, J. A. S. V, 230; N. niveus, 

 Jerdon's Catalogue. 



* Heteropus perniger, Hodgson; Aquila pernigra, Ibid., J. A. S. V, 227; Nisae- 

 tus f ? ovivorus, Jerdon, Supplement to Catalogue, and indicated only in the latter 

 as a Black Eagle frequently seen on the summit of the Neilghierries: male and 

 female, the latter particularly fine. 



*Pernis cristata : a young male, white beneath,— a female in more advanced plu- 

 mage, — and a male still more advanced. 



P. Ellioti, Jameson : a female, nearly white below,— and a male in more advanced 

 plumage. — N.B. I feel far from satisfied of the distinctness of these two alleged 

 species. 

 * Limnatus punctatus, Jerdon; olim Spizcetus punctatus, Supplement to Catalogue. 



*Buteo longipes, Jerdon. 



*B. rufiventer, Jerdon, Supplement. 



B. teesa, Gray and Hardwicke; Circus teesa, Franklin; Astur Hyder, Sykes: an 

 adult female and young male. 



*Circcetus albidus ; Falco albidus, Cuvier, Temminck; Buteo melanotis, Jerdon, 

 Supplement. 



Circus Swainsonii, A. Smith ; C. pallidus, Sykes : male. 



Falco Juggur, Gray and Hardwicke ; F. Luggur, Jerdon : young female. 



Falco subbuteo, female ; the European Hobby Falcon. In J. A. S. ante, p. 162, I 

 attempted to cast a doubt as to whether the true Hobby inhabited this country, sus- 

 pecting that the specimens referred to it had either been females or young of the 

 nearly allied F. Aldrovandi, vel severus, Horsfield ; but although there can be no 

 doubt that the Darjeeling male F. Aldrovandi which I there described was correctly 

 referred to that species, a more decidedly characterized specimen of the adult subbuteo 

 which I killed on the wing very late one evening in the immediate vicinity of 

 Calcutta, leads me, after much consideration, to identify not only Mr. Jerdon's 

 specimen as specifically the same, but also the two which I described as the female 

 and young female of Aldrovandi on the occasion cited. The two species must cer- 

 tainly be very intimately allied, and I regret that we do not possess a specimen of 

 Aldrovandi that might now serve for further comparison, and also that I do not know, 

 and cannot find a description of the immature plumage of this species, which pro- 

 bably approximates very closely indeed to the corresponding garb of F. subbuteo. 



