92 
Mr. J. 
H. Gurney^s 
Notes on 
Wing. 
Tarsus. 
Middle toe s. ti. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
Murshedabad * . 
. 16-6 
3-5 
1-8 
Mussoorie, c? . 
. 19-6 
4-1 
2-3 
Mirzapore, S . 
. 18-5 
4 
1-9 
South of Godavery, near Bha- 
drachallam, (J . 
. 181 
3-5 
2 
Ibidem, $ . 
. 18-8 
3-8 
2*2 
Godavery valley, 2 • • 
. 18 
3-9 
2 
Madras. 
. 18-4 
3-7 
2‘2 
. 
. 18'5 
3-6 
2 
I may add that the birds which I have been kindly per¬ 
mitted to examine,, and which are included in the above list, 
are contained in the British, Norwich, and Liverpool Mu¬ 
seums, and in the collections of the Marquis of Tweeddale 
and of Canon Tristram; the list also includes a few speci¬ 
mens in the possession of Mr. Burton, bird-stuffer, of War- 
dour Street, London. 
The following measurements of Indian specimens are given 
by Mr. Humef. 
Wing. 
Tarsus. 
North-west Himalayas . 
18 
4 
Saharunpoor district, . 
19-245 
n d. 
19-5 
» n d. 
20-25 
$. 
21 
Sirg-uja, d. 
18-4 
4-2 
Bugola, near Calcutta. 
16-4 
3-5 
Travancore hills, c? adult . 
17 
3-75 
Ibidem, S young, just beginning to 
pass into adult plumage. 
16-75 
3-87 
The late Dr. Jerdon gave the following measurements of 
the type of his Buteo {Spilornis) melanotiSj^hich. was killed 
at the foot of the Neilgherries,'’^ the sex not being recorded:— 
wing 16, tarsus 3*8, middle toe s.u, V7%, 
* Mr. Sharpe, who refers, under the head of S. melanotis, to this spe¬ 
cimen, which was collected by Col. Cobbe, and is preserved in the British 
Museum, makes the measurement of the wing 16*8, and that of the tarsus 
3-65. 
t Vide ^Rough Notes,’ p. 226; also ‘Stray Feathers,’ for 1874, p. 380, 
and for 1876, p. 358. 
X Vide ‘Madras Journal,’ vol. xiii. p. 167. 
