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perpetually seen in the fields perched on a clod, and looking out for 

 Snakes, which constitute its chief food. It also preys on Rats and 

 Mice, and on Quails, Snipes, and Partridges ; but is reduced to take 

 the birds on the ground. I have seen it, however, make a splendid 

 stoop at a Quail, which, after being flushed, chanced to alight on a 

 bare spot, so as to be visible to the bird as he followed it with his 

 eye on the wing and marked it settle. Teal and even Ducks are 

 frequently slain by our bird in the same way. If he can perceive 

 them take wing, even at half a mile's distance, he is up with them 

 in an instant, and is sure to capture them, unless they are under cover in 

 a moment after they touch the earth. I have carefully compared 

 specimens of vulgaris and canescens, and cannot help thinking that the 

 species are distinct ; the breadth of the head and of the bill near it 

 being so much more striking in the latter than in the former. Authors 

 suppose that Buteo vulgaris is never found east of the Cape. Our 

 bird is its representative." 



Its representative no doubt on the Himalaya, but in Southern India 

 there are two true Buzzards, the B. longipes and B. riifiventer, 

 Jerdon, and in the Tenasserim provinces another, B. pygmceus, 

 Nobis.] 



12. Elanus melanopterus : {Petite Buse Criarde of Sonnerat, upon 

 which are founded Falco vociferus, Latham, and F. clamosus, Shaw.] 



13. Accipiter [nisosimilis, Tickell, J. A. S. II, 571: A. nisus vel 

 fringillarius of Jerdon and others. It differs from the European spe- 

 cies in its larger size, and in having constantly a long superciliary 

 white line ; the markings of the under-parts are also somewhat different. 



14. Milvus [ckeela; Falco cheela, Gmelin: M. govinda, Sykes ; 

 M. cetolius, Lesson. N. B. I thought at first that the specimens sent 

 of this bird presented certain differences from the common Indian 

 Kite, but subsequent comparison of them with numerous examples of 

 the latter has convinced me of their identity.] 



15. Falco per egrinus ; \F. calidus, Latham.] 



16. Falco [juggur, Hardwicke and Gray ; F. luggur, Jerdon] 

 (Logger, Jhagger, Indice, Maset, fcem.) 



17. Falco tinnunculus. 



18. Buteonina. Genus Butastur, Hodgson. Buteo teesa, Auct., type. 

 [Circus teesa, Franklin ; Astur Hyder, Sykes.] It differs from the true 



