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Milvus (Madr. Jl. No. XXIV, 72.) Dr. Jameson, on the other hand, 

 avers that "no person who has ever studied this bird in its native 

 haunts on the Hoogly or the Ganges, where it occurs in vast numbers, 

 in company with other Haliaeti ( ! J, would for a moment doubt 

 where its proper position ought to be in the Ornithological system." 

 (Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. No. Ill, 318.) Mr. Gould, again, on 

 referring a new Australian species to Haliaetus (P. Z. S. 1837, p. 

 138), remarks that it is "nearly allied to Hal. Pondicerianus" thus 

 doubly acknowledging the current arrangement of the latter, though he 

 has since formed a particular section for these two species. For my 

 own part, I have long regarded the true Milvi as being closely related 

 by affinity to the Haliaeti or Ernes, and therefore find no difficulty in 

 agreeing with Messrs. Hodgson and Jerdon as regards the proximity of 

 the Brahminee Cheel to the Kites, while I still prefer to retain it as a 

 subgenus of Haliaetus, of which group I have already indicated three 

 marked natural divisions, the present bird being characteristic of one 

 of them. 



10. Astur (?) Dussumieri: at least this species appears closely 

 allied to two Australian Hawks (approximans and cruentus) recently 

 referred to this genus by Mr. Gould, having the toes very much shorter 

 than in restricted Accipiter*; but it would be better perhaps to in- 

 stitute a separate division for this intermediate form : Accipiter Duk- 

 hunensis, Sykes ; and] A. scutarius, Hodgson, [Bengal Sporting Ma- 

 gazine, for 1836, p. 180; the young: noticed also in As. Res. XIX, 

 note to p. 175, together with an A. affinis which, from the context, 

 I much suspect is merely the adult.f N. B. Mr. Jerdon agrees with 

 me in referring the specimens marked scutarius by Mr. Hodgson to 

 the young A. Dussumieri.'] 



11. Buteo canescens, Hodgson, ('Bengal Sporting Magazine' for 

 1836, p. 180.) As few naturalists, but especially foreign naturalists, 

 have the opportunity of consulting the work referred to, I deem it 

 proper to quote the description, and shall offer some further remarks 

 on the species. 



It is a perfectly typical Buzzard, nearly allied to the European B. 



* Vide P. Z. S. 1837, p. 98. 



f The Noctua Tarayensis there mentioned is Athene brama, or iV. Jndica, Frank- 

 lin ; and the N. tubiger identical with N. Brodiei, Burton, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 152. 



