MS. “Illustrations of Indian Ornithology.” 341 
from a young male of L. albiniger, aspecies, in adult plumage, 
by the way, which Colonel Tickell describes as a variety of 
L. cristatellus. Myr. Sharpe (Cat. Accipitres, p. 352) iden- 
tifies F. lathami, and without a doubt, with Baza lophotes. 
There is something to be said in favour of this opinion, but 
not enough to establish it. In favour, there is the fact that 
Colonel Tickell again refers to F. lathami in his article on 
Baza lophotes,; a species, however, of which he was ignorant 
in the adult plumage. As the young he describes, with a 
note of interrogation, the bird he had obtained in 18383 in 
Borabhoom, adding to the description the words “ Tickell’s 
Falco lathami, 1833.” And he goes on to observe, ‘The 
above description is taken entirely from Jerdon ; for the adult 
I have never seen, and the (by me supposed) young I lost 
my notes and drawing of; but a slight description was sent 
by me, in a ‘ List of Birds collected in the Jungle Mahals,’ to 
the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1833, of a 
bird shot by mein Seheria, Manbhoom (West Bengal), which, 
to the best of my recollection, closely resembles Baza lo- 
photes in an immature plumage, and most certainly was not 
a Limnaétus, nor an Astur as suggested by Jerdon.”’ But 
Colonel Tickell had no previous or subsequent certain know- 
ledge of Baza lophotes in any phase of plumage ; and he there- 
fore could not possibly judge whether the bird he referred to 
F. lathami was the young of B. lophotes or not. In opposi- 
tion to Mr. Sharpe’s identification, we have these two incon- 
venient facts: first, Tickell’s bird measured 18 inches in 
length, and in expanse 40 inches; and, secondly, the legs 
are described as being “ clothed with short white feathers to 
the feet, which are of a horny colour.” The first character 
tells, and the last would tell conclusively, against Colonel 
Tickell’s bird having belonged to B. lophotes, were it not for 
the inconsistent sentence which follows—‘“ exposed part of 
the tarsi reticulated.” No description of B. lophotes in first 
plumage appears to have been published ; nor have I ever met 
with examples. 
A mature female of L. kieneri, from Darjeeling, is well 
figured; and the title albogularis, Tickell (J. A. S. B. 1842, 



































