Mr. R. B. Sharpe’s Catalogue of Accipitres. 371 
The late Dr. Jerdon, writing at page 340 of ‘The Ibis' 
for 1871 respecting Hodgson's A. strophiatus, remarks that 
“ it is certainly the same as Blyth's A. hemiptilopus . 
His specimen in the British Museum .... perfectly resembles 
the type of Blyth's hemiptilopus ." 
I have no doubt that this view is correct, although it would 
appear from Mr. Blyth's description of the type of A. hemi¬ 
ptilopus that it wants the “ broad irregular band of white across 
the breast" (to quote the words of Mr. Sharpe) which is 
conspicuous in the type of A. strophiatus. 
This, however, seems to be but a variable character, as a 
male from Shanghai in the Norwich Museum has much more 
white on the underparts than the type specimen, agreeing in 
this respect with a presumed female from Kooloo, described 
by Mr. Hume in ‘ Stray Feathers' for 1873, p. 315. 
Mr. Hume also mentions that in his specimen “ the first 
three quills have the whole of both webs above the emargi- 
nation pure white;" but this is probably an individual pecu¬ 
liarity, as in the Shanghai specimen at Norwich the outer 
webs above the emargination of these quills are dark grey, 
and in the British-Museum specimen the primaries are de¬ 
scribed by Mr. Sharpe as “ having a slight greyish shade ex¬ 
ternally Mr. Blyth also describes the type of A. hemipti¬ 
lopus as having the “ primaries dusky, paler above the emar¬ 
gination of the outer web." 
Unfortunately Mr. Hodgson's specific name of “ strophi¬ 
atus " is unaccompanied by any description, either in Dr. 
Gray's ‘Zoological Miscellany" (1844, p. 81) or in his 
Nepal Catalogue (1846, p. 39); and I therefore apprehend 
that, unless such a description was published elsewhere prior 
to the publication of Mr. Blyth's specific name of hemipti¬ 
lopus (which, so far as I can ascertain, is not the case), it 
will be right to drop the specific name of “ strophiatus " and 
to adopt that of “ hemiptilopus ," assuming that the iden¬ 
tity of these two birds is (as I think it is) sufficiently esta¬ 
blished. 
There is, however, another question which arises with re¬ 
ference to the synonymy of this Buzzard,, viz.:—Is Archi- 
