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on Dr. Jerdoffls 1 Birds of India / 
1841 (vol. iv. 213), this bird, under the name of Falco rufipes *, 
is asserted to be “the most common Hawk in Asia Minor, 
building its nests under the roofs, and sometimes even in the 
interior of houses.” In confinement this species and E. cenchris 
do not thrive upon meat, but must be fed on a mixed diet, like 
that commonly given to small insectivorous birds. Dr. Jerdon, 
it will be observed, agrees with me in referring E. cenchris and 
E. vespertinus to the same minimum division. I cannot help 
thinking that all naturalists who are familiar with the living- 
birds must needs be of the same opinion. These two little white- 
clawed Kestrelets only visit Lower Bengal during the rainy 
season (so far as I have observed); and the same remark applies 
to Baza lophotes. 
20. Hierax eutolmus. 
The common Malayan species of this genus, H. fringillarius , 
Drapiez ( H.malayensis , Strickland, and Falco ccerulescens , Yieillot, 
Gal. des Ois. t. 18), is stated by Yieillot to be found “ particu- 
lierement en Bengale,” where this genus happens to have no 
representative ! An account of its habits (which of course 
are generic ) is given in the ‘Proceedings of the Zoological Society 3 
for 1863, p. 206. The notice in Captain Mundy’s { Sketches of 
a Tour in India 9 (ii. p. 25), formerly quoted by me and since by 
Mr. F. Moore (P. Z. S. 1854, p. 258), refers unquestionably to 
Accipiter virgatus , and not to a Hierax, as indeed is remarked 
by Dr. Jerdon. 
The Khandesra Hawk noticed by Dr. Jerdon (p. 54) is pro¬ 
bably, as he suggests, Accipiter nisoides, nobis (J. A. S. B. 1845, 
xvi. 727, xxi. 359; ex Sumatra A. fringillarius var., Yigors, 
‘Appendix to Memoir of Sir T. S. Raffles/ p. 549; and A. gu- 
laris, Schlegel, Faun. Japon. Aves , 1850, t. 2). Professor 
Schlegel mentions a specimen of his Nisus gularis from Nipal ! 
Dr. Jerdon writes word that A. nisoides is not rare in the inte¬ 
rior of the Himalaya; but two examples received from him, 
possibly intended for this (though I can hardly comprehend his 
* [We cannot help thinking that in the passage quoted there may have 
been some confusion between this species and Tinnunculus cenchris. Confer 
1 Ibis,’ 1860, pp. 380, 381.— Ed.] 
