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speckled immature plumage as the Paria and Brahmini Kites of 
India. Pandion humilis, S. Muller {Ichthyaetus nanus, Blyth), 
is, I feel quite confident, erroneously assigned to Bengal by 
Professor Schlegel (Mus. P.-B. Aquilce, p. 18). The specimen 
which I described as Ichthyaetus nanus was from the Straits of 
Malacca. Mr. P. Moore also gives a specimen from Bengal with 
a note of doubt. Not improbably the range of P. humilis may 
extend to Lower Siam and the southern Tenasserim provinces, 
but I doubt if it reaches higher. 
42. Haliaetus leucoryphus ; Aquila leucorypha, Pallas; 
H. fulviventer, Vieillot; H. macei, Cuvier. 
Professor Schlegel, I have no doubt correctly, identifies the 
Indian bird with that described by Pallas. 
44. Buteo vulgaris. 
This certainly occurs in the North-western Himalaya, as near 
Masuri, where several specimens were collected byDr.T. Stewart. 
B.ruftventris (Jerdon), from the Nilgiris, and also Nipal, is 
identified by Mr. Gurney (Ibis, 1862, p. 361) with “ B. cirtensis 
of Le Yaillant, jun., the northern representative of B. tachardus” 
(as noticed in Jerdon’s Appendix), which is referred to B. ta¬ 
chardus by Dr. Bree. M. des Murs, however, has shown (Rev. 
Zool. 1862, p. 49) that the “ Tachard ” of Le Vaillant, and conse¬ 
quently the B. tachardus of Daudin, is identical with Pernis api- 
vorus, —an opinion in which Mr. Gurney coincides ( Ibis, 1862, 
p. 361). At all events, Jerdon’s name rufiventris takes prece¬ 
dence of cirtensis *. 
45. Buteo ferox ; Falco ferox, Gmelin; B. rufinus, Riippell; 
B. canescens, Hodgson; B. leucurus, Naumann. 
46. Buteo asiaticus ; Falco asiaticus, Latham; Buteo 
aquilinus and Butaquila leucocephala, Hodgson; B. hemilasius, 
Schlegel (Faun. Japon. Aves, tab. 7), as suggested by Mr. 
G. R. Gray in his catalogue of Mr. Hodgson’s specimens pre¬ 
sented to the British Museum (1846). In his second edition of 
* [Mr. Gurney considers that there is no specific difference between 
Buteo desertorum (Daudin) from South Africa, B. cirtensis (Le Vaill., jun.) 
from North Africa, and B. rufiventris (Jerdon) from India. If so, of course 
Daudin’s name has the priority.— Ed.] 
