Mr. R. B. Sharpens Catalogue 0 /Accipitres. 93 
I have already alluded to the circumstance of Mr. Swinhoe 
having met, in the island of Hainan, with a Spilornis consi¬ 
derably smaller than that which he had found at Amoy. In 
^The Ibis^ for 1870 that gentleman proposed the specific 
name of rutherfordi for the Spilornis of Hainan; and at p. 86 
he gave the dimensions of five specimens which he obtained 
in that island, but without recording their sexes. In these 
examples the measurement of the wing, as given by Mr. 
Swinhoe, range from 16*25 to 17 inches'^, that of the 
tarsus from 3*75 to 4*25, and of the middle toe s.u. from 1*9 
to 2*3. 
Mr. Swinhoe also quoted, for comparison, the dimensions 
of a Spilornis from Pachebouri, Siam, which is preserved in 
the Norwich Museum : on recently remeasuring this example, 
I made its wing 18*1, the tarsus 3*6, and the middle toe s. u. 
1*9, these dimensions being a little difierent from those given 
by Mr. Swinhoe as the result of a former measurement which 
we jointly made of this specimen. 
Examples of somewhat similar size occur in Burmah; the 
following measurements were taken by myself from Burmese 
specimens in the collection of the Marquis of Tweeddale :— 
Wing. 
Tarsus. 
Middle toe s. u. 
in. 
in. 
in. 
S, Kyouk Kyee, British Bur- 
mah . 
17-1 
3*5 
21 
8*, Mong, British Burmah . . 
17-8 
4 
1-9 
8, Tonghoo. 
17 
3-5 
1-9 
5, Tonghoo (immature) .. 
17-7 
3-8 
2*2 
{The sexes of the following 
are unrecorded^ 
Tonghoo. 
17-3 
2-1 
Eangoon ... 
17 
3-6 
2 
„ (immature). 
16-5 
4 
2 
Thayetmyo . 
18-6 
3-9 
2-2 
* Mr. Sharpe, however, at p. 289 of his volume, quotes the measure¬ 
ment of the wing in one of these specimens, an adult, now preserved in 
the British Museum, as 17’8. It may be well to mention that, of the 
remaining four specimens, one adult is in the Norwich Museum, another 
in the possession of Canon Tristram, whilst the remaining adult and the 
immature bird were retained by Mr. Swinhoe in his own collection. 
