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AVES.* 



Circus ? Female. Affined in general appearance to C. mnu- 



ginosus, but apparently distinct. Mr. Swinhoe writes — " I have at 

 last succeeded in procuring whafc I take to be the male of this spe- 

 cies, bluish-grey on the wings and wliite on the nnder-parts with a 

 few streaks. C. cyajsteus is also common with us. 



Euteo ytjlgabis, Eechstein ; B. vulgaris, var. japonicus, Tem- 

 minck and Schlegel (apud ¡Swinhoe), though why so distinguished í 

 cannot perceive. 



Milytjs melanotis; Haliaetus vnélanotis, Gray, Hardw. lll. Ind. 

 Zool. Like M. goyinda, Sykes, but having a stouter beak, and the 

 plumage of the rnature bircl marked with palé streaks on the upper- 

 parts. 



Cypselus ? Like C. affenis, Gray, of India, but with the 



crown and tail conspicuously blacker, and the tail distinctly sub- 

 furcate. 



Coeytjs sikensis, Gould ; Horsfield, Ind. Mus. Catal., II, 556. 

 Exceedingly near to the common C. culminatus, Sykes, of India, 

 Eurma, and the Malayan peninsula, but decidedly larger, and I now 

 doubt if either can be correctly identified with C. oeientalis, Evers- 

 mann, of Middle Asia.f 



* For other Chínese birds sent, vide Vol. XXVIII, p. 280. 



f C. orientalis is thus distinguished by Prof. Eversrnann from the European 

 C. corone, of whicli latter the late Dr. Horsfield notes in his Catalogue two 

 specimens from Pushut, and also C. CORNix from Mesopotamia and Afghánistán ! 



" CoRVUS CORONE. Ccerideo ater, rostro modice acuminato, linea elevatá Jwri- 

 zontali infra nares, tomium in rostri medio attingente. 



*■* Corvüs orientalis. Caruleo-aier, rostro valido, crassiusculo, incurvo, to~ 

 miis continué involutis, mandibidari ápice recto, spatio ínter nares et tomium max- 

 illare rotundato, Icevi. 



" JExemplaria mea circa fluvium Narym, ultra oppidam Buchtarma, occisa sunt." 

 (Addenda ad celeberrimi JBallasii Zoograpliiam Rosso-asiaticum. Fasciculus II, 

 A. D. 1841.) 



Over India generally and Ceylon, we have only C. culminatus and C. SPLÉN- 

 DENS ; the latter found exclusively where there is a considerable human popu- 

 lation. It is only of late years that C. splendens has found its way into Ara- 

 kan ; but in Pegu there is a black race of it, and a nearly black race of it in 

 Ceylon. Mr. F. Moore, however, describes a C. tenuirostris from Eombay. 

 " Plumage above glossy purple-black, palest on the head, neck, back, and body 

 beneath, and these having an ashy cast ; forehead jet-black, and contrasting with 

 the ashy cast of plnmage of the crown. Length 18 in. ; of wing 12-| in. ; tail 

 7 in. ; bilí to gape 24 in. ; and tarse 2\ in." 



C. culminatus we have rcceived from Malacca, where it co-exists with C. 

 macroriiynchos, Vieillot, a species with remarkably long and slender bilí, mea- 

 suring 2| in. to gape ; and this again appears to diífer from C. enca, Horsfield, 



