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Buzzards in its less corpulent form, and general adaptation for more 

 active habits: the tarsi are longer and more prominently scutellated 

 in front, the toes also being scutellated above nearly to their base, and 

 the talons are comparatively powerful. The markings also are some- 

 what peculiar, and recal to mind those of various South American 

 Raptores ; but still manifest a relationship to the true Buzzards, which 

 is further conspicuously shewn by the rufous tail. 



19. Falconince. Genus Hyptiopus (Hodgson, olim Baza, H. \_lo- 

 photes ; Falco lophotes, Temminck : Lophotes Indicus, Lesson ; Buteo 

 cristatus, Vieillot ; Colvy Falcon of Latham ; Falco Lathami, J. E. 

 Gray, and since Lepidogenys Lathami. G. R. Gray ; Baza syama, 

 Hodgson, J. A. S. V, 777, which latter generic name has precedence 

 of Lepidogenys, while Lophotes is pre-occupied in Ichthyology. More- 

 over, I do not consider this form to appertain to the Falcon group, 

 but decidedly to that of the Perns and Elans.] Type. 



20. Falco chicquera. 



21. Ierax [Bengalensis: Little Black and Orange-coloured Hawk 

 of Edwards, erroneously regarded as the female of I. ccerulescens by 

 various authors. Vide p. 180,* ante. 



22. Ketupa Leschenaultii, Lesson : Sfrix Hardwickii, Gray : cul- 

 trungris nigripes, Hodgson, J. A. S. V. 364, and mentioned in VI, 

 363. Identical with specimens from Southern India and the Tenasserim 

 provinces.] 



23. Mesomorpha (Hodgson, olim Urrua, H.) [Bengalensis ; Otus 

 Bengalensis, Franklin, Gould : Bubo ? caveareus, Hodgson, As. Res. 

 XIX, 169, and since Urrua cavearea, H., J. A. S. VI, 372; altered 

 to Mesomorpha, Ibid. X, 28, where various other prior appellations 

 are similarly changed and classicized; Urrua Bengalensis, Jerdon] 

 Type. 



24. Meseidus (Hodgson, olim Bulaca, H.) Newarensis [Ulula ? 

 Newarensis, Hodgson, As. Res. XIX, 168; Bulaca — Id. J. A. S. 

 VI, 372; B. monticola, Jerdon, Supplement.] Type. 



25. Strix flammea : [Str. Javanica, apud Jerdon. 1 



26. Genus Ninox, Hodgson: type. N. [scululatus ; Strix scutulata, 

 Raffles, Lin. Trans. XIII, pt. II, 280: Str. hirsuta, Tern. ; Str. lugu- 

 bris, Tickell, J. A. S. IT, 572 ; Ninox Nipalensis, Hodgson, Madr. Jl. 

 No. XIV, 23, with figure; J. A. S. VI, 364, where the singular paral- 



