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Mr. E. Blyth on the Bb'ds of India. 
albus, Daudin. B. mutans et fasciatus, Vieillot. B. septen - 
trionalis, medius, et murum, Brehm. B. communis, Cuvier. B. 
swainsonii, Pr. Bonaparte. B. montanus, Riippell. B. rufiventer, 
Jerdon. B. japonicus, Schlegel. 
Hab. Northern hemisphere; rare, and to the northward only 
in America. The loftier hills only in India. Common in the 
N.W. Himalaya. 
67. B. plumipes, Hodgson, vide J. A. S. xiv. p. 2 ; P. Z. S. 
1845, p. 37. 
Syn. B. pygmceus, Blyth, J. A. S. xiv. p. 177. 
Hab. Central region of Nepal; Tenasserim provinces?* 
Genus Poliornis, Kaup. 
68. P. teesa. (Hardwicke, 111. Ind. Zool. pi. 30.) 
Syn. Circus teesa , Pranklin. Astur hyder , Sykes. Zuggun 
Falcon , Latham. P. fasciatus (?), A. Hay, Madr. Journ. L. Sc. 
xiii. p. 146. Astur barbatus (?), Eyton, Ann. N. H. 1845, 
p. 227. 
Hab. Plains of India. Seldom met with on the mud-soil of 
Lower Bengal, though appearing immediately this is quitted, 
Tenasserim provinces (common); Malayan peninsula. “Not 
seen in the Punjab or W. Himalaya” (Adams). 
Subfam. Haliaetin^e. 
Genus Pandion, Savigny. 
69. P. haliaetus. (GoukPs B. E. pi. 12.) 
Syn. Falco haliaetus, L. F. carolinensis, F. cayanensis, et F. 
arundinaceus, Gmelin. F. pise at or, Brisson. Aquila piscatrix, 
Vieillot. Aq. balbuzardus, Dumeril. P. fluvialis, Savigny. P. 
americanus, Vieillot. P. alticeps et P. planiceps, Brehm. P. in- 
dicus, Hodgson. Bengal Osprey, Latham. 
Hab. Of general distribution; the Australian race (P. leuco- 
cephalus, Gould, which, according to Prof. Schlegel, is also found 
* The probably identity of B. pygmceus with B. plumipes was suggested 
to me by Dr. Jerdon. 
