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p. 456), is admitted to be synonymous. Polioaétus icthyaétus, 
adult female and young bird, is well given, from Tenasserim 
examples, and is stated to be the commonest Kagle in Burma 
and Tenasserim ; and two beautiful plates represent Haliaétus 
fulviventer, from Malda, and H. leucogaster, from Akyab. 
Among the drawings of the Hawks, A. trivirgatus 2. juv. ex 
Singbhoom, M. badius 3 ad. ex Tenasserim (polopsis, Hume), 
A. nisus 9 ad. from Darjeeling, and A. virgatus, young of 
second year, from Hazaribagh, find a place. Falco nisosimilis, 
Tickell (J. A. 8. B. 1833, p. 571), is not alluded to, beyond 
being quoted as a synonym of A. nisus, according to Jerdon. 
Eight different species of Falcons form the subjects of as 
many plates, the most interesting being, perhaps, F. peregri- 
nator, of which a mature female and a young example are 
figured on the same plate. Colonel Tickell states that it is 
a commoner species in Burma than in India, and that he 
had “frequently observed it on the sea-side at Amherst, 
where two or three pairs of these birds breed every cold 
season, building on the high Gurjan oil-trees along the 
shore.” The plate of the common Indian Kite, WM. govinda, 
may be cited as one of the most-charming and characteristic 
in the volume. Butastur teesa, from a Tenasserim female, is 
figured on the same plate with a Bengal male; and the species 
is said to be more common in Burma than in Bengal. 
Faico herbecola, Tickell* (J. A. 8. B. 18338, p. 570), is iden- 
tified with Circus swainsonit @ , a position assigned to it with 
doubt by Blyth (Cat. Cale. Mus. no. 90), and with certainty 
by Jerdon (B. Ind. no. 51). 
The second volume contains twenty-one plates, on which 
nineteen species of Owls are depicted. A figure of a nestling 
example of Syrnium indranee, obtained in Tenasserim, leads 
off. The ochraceous colour of the disk is plainly indicated. 
Following a fair plate of Syrniwm seloputo, from Tenasserim, 
is an admirable drawing of S. nivicolum, from Darjeeling, 
and then good figures of Bubo bengalensis and coromandus, 
from Bengal. The next represents the type of Tickell’s 
* T cannot find any notice of this title in the British-Museum Cata- 
logue, Accipitres (1874), : 

