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small reticulate scutse. There are absolutely no traces of 
transverse scutse. 
Thisj then, it would appear, is unquestionably a specimen 
of Hodgson^s and Blyth^s species, and exhibits the very 
characteristics on which they rely; but when we com- 
pare this specimen with a large series of B. ferox it seems 
very doubtful whether either of these supposed character- 
istic points are of specific value. We find that the distance 
to which the tarsus is feathered in B. ferox varies very 
greatly in diff'erent individuals, and although we possess at 
present no single example of this latter species in which 
the tarsus is feathered quite so far down as in this specimen, 
we find several in which the extent of feathering falls but 
very slightly short of that of the present bird. 
As regards scutellation of the tarsus and foot, we find 
that it varies from broad perfect transverse scutee covering 
s the whole front of the tarsus, to perfectly reticulate scales, 
in which no trace of a single transverse scuta is observable, 
and every intermediate form is observable. 
Mr. Gurney, who has examined this example, and in 
company with Mr. G. R. Gray has compared it with 
Hodgson's specimen of Buteo leucocephalus = aquilinus in 
the British Museum (referred to by Dr. Jerdon in the 
Ibis, 1871, p. 339), finds them identical, except that the 
plumage of the specimen in the British Museum is slightly 
more fuliginous than that of the present bird. [A. O. H.] 
56. Milvus govinda (Sykes). 
This species does not occur between Ladak and Shahidulla. 
Here one was seen, and further on it was occasionally met 
with. [G. H.] 
82. Hirundo rustica (Linn).. 
Was found in great abundance in Kashmir in June, where 
it was breeding, and in the plains of Yarkand it was 
common all the way from Sanju to the city. At Oi 
Tograk, in August, they were collecting in flocks and 
perching in vast numbers on the mulberry-trees, pro- 
bably preparatory to migrating, because on the return of 
