514 Conspectus of the Ornithology of India. [No. 7. 



and it is remarkable that he does not include Hypotriorchis subbuteo 

 in the list, though a migratory bird in Europe, and mentioned by Dr. 

 A. Smith to occur at the Cape of Good Hope* 



No. 19. There is a Falco punicus, Levaillant, "Exploration 

 Scientifique de TAlgere, Oiseaux, pi. 1, 1847" (as cited by Mons. 

 A. Malherbe), which may perhaps be F. peregrinator. Dr. Hartlaub 

 is disposed to think it a local variety of F. peregrinus.* 



No. 42. As it seems doubtful whether No. 41 is not the true 

 Accipiter virgatus, (Tern.), of the Malay countries, a note of doubt 

 should be placed after this habitat as assigned to No. 42. 



No. 61. As far as can be judged from Dr. RuppelPs figure of 

 Buteo rufinus, this certainly would not seem to represent the common 

 Indian Buzzard ; but we may suppose that Mr. G. R. Gray has good 

 authority for the identification, although it does not appear from his 

 last catalogue of the British Museum Eaptores, that there is an African 

 specimen of this bird in the national collection. 



No. 71. We can find nothing in the descriptions of Milvtjs ater 

 by M. Degland and others, which does not apply to the Indian M. 

 govinda, and bear out Mr. Strickland's opinion of their identity. In 

 Proc. Zool. Soc. for 1834 or 1835 (we are necessitated to quote from 

 memory), a recent specimen of M. ater shot at Erzeroum or Trebizond 

 is described to have had orange-brown (?) hides, whereas those of the 

 Indian Kite are dark brown. 



P. 317. The prior name Baza, Hodgson, should be substituted for 

 Aviceda, Swainson, among the Fernince. 



Summary View of the Indian Raptores, considered in I'elation to 

 those of other regions. On glancing over the list of Indian raptorial 

 birds, the faunist, familiar with European ornithology, cannot fail to 

 be struck with the number of European species of Diurn^e which 

 likewise inhabit India: — all, in fact, with the exceptions of a few 

 stragglers from Africa or America, the Jer Falcons of the north (and 

 even one of these we have admitted, on what appears to be satisfactory 



ing F. concolor, Tern., in the latter. — Since writing the above, we have been fortu- 

 nate in obtaining a live specimen of F. chicquera, observation of which inclines 

 us now to regard it as an aberrant Tinnunculus, — certainly not a Hypotriorchis. 



* " Bericht iiber die Leistungen in der Naturgeschichte der Vogel wahrend des 

 Jahres 1847," p. 14. 



