164 Supplement to the Catalogue of the Birds [No. SO. 



242. This is the 31erops Athertoni of Jardine and Selby's 

 Illustrations of Ornithology, the ISyctiornis ceruleus of Swain- 

 son. Its genuine name, however, appears founded on erro- 

 neous information, as it feeds during the day, and the note of 

 the Bucco viridis, seems to have been mistaken for that of 

 this bird, which has a loud rolling warble. It pursues in- 

 sects from its perch on a high tree, seldom returning to the 

 same branch, but wandering from tree to tree. I have very 

 lately procured it at the bottom of the Coonoor pass. 



Irides deep ochre yellow ; bill dusky, whitish at the base 

 Legs cinereous green. 



28o. This I see is the Columba badia of Raffles and Wag- 

 ler ; the Col. capistrata. of Temminck. 1 give the dimensi- 

 ons of one I shot lately on the Khoondah. Ghaut. 



Length 19 inches; breadth 26 ; girth of body 13; wing 

 9 ; tail 7 ; tarsus 1t 0 ; bill at gape 1~ ; at front 1 ; weight 

 lglb. 



20, — bis. — Spizaetus punctatus. — New Species ? — Spotted, 

 Spizaetus. 



Descr. — Plumage above glossy, hair brown, each feather 

 pointed Vith whitish, and the upper tail feathers barred with 

 white. Throat and neck unspotted brown ; under surface of 

 the wing coverts, breast, abdomen, leg feathers, and under- 

 tail coverts fawn, barred transversely with brown. Quills 

 glossy purple black, internally silvery grey, mottled and 

 barred with dusky. Tail above glossy purplish-black, obso- 

 letely barred with dusky grey, with a white tip, on its under 

 surface the grey tinge predominates, barred with dusky ; 

 cere and feet yellow ; bill and claws black ; irides brown. 



Length 26 j inches ; wing 18| ; tail 9g ; tarsus 4~ ; mid- 

 toe 1 ; do. claw 1 ; outer-toe 1 ^ ; do. claw ~ ; bill slightly 

 bending from the base, nostrils small, obliquely oval ; com- 



