



370 Mr. J. H. Gurney’s Notes on 
bars; the terminal portion of the tail in this specimen is 
slightly tinged with rufous. 
From Buteo hemilasius it appears to be a natural transition 
to pass to the consideration of the Rough-legged Buzzards, 
forming the genus Archibuteo ; subsequently to which I pro- 
pose to recur to the remaining Buteonine groups with unfea- 
thered tarsi, to which I have not as yet alluded. 
In treating of the genus Archibuteo, it may be convenient, 
in the first instance, to refer to Archibuteo strophiatus of 
Hodgson, a species of at least equal rarity with Buteo hemi- 
lasius, and of somewhat similar geographical range, as it ex- 
tends from Northern India to China, where it has been ob- 
tained as far north as Shanghai; it has not, however, so far 
as I know, been observed in Japan. 
The earliest synonyms for this species are, according to 
Mr. Sharpe’s work, the following :— 
Hemiaétos strophiatus, Hodgson, in Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 81 
(1844). 
Archibuteo strophiatus, Gray, Cat. of Hodgson’s Coll. of 
Mammals and Birds of Nepal, p. 39 (1846). 
Archibuteo hemiptilopus, Blyth, J. A. 8S. B. vol. xv. p. 1 
(1846). 
Archibuteo cryptogenys, Hodgson, Calcutta Journ. N. H. 
p. 94, pl. 3.* fig. 1 (1847). 
In considering the question whether these synonyms are 
all properly referable to the same species, it may be well to 
mention that the British Museum. possesses what appears to 
be the undoubted type specimen of Hodgson’s “ strophiatus,’ 
as that specific namet is inscribed on a coloured drawing pre- 
sented by Mr. Hodgson to the Museum, which so accurately 
represents the stuffed specimen in the national collection, 
that I think there can be no doubt of its being a portrait of 
that individual. ‘This specimen is also figured in Mr. Sharpe’s 
work, pl. 7. fig. 2. 
* This plate is erroneously referred to as pl. 5 in Mr. Sharpe’s book, 
probably from a misprint. 
+ Iam indebted to Mr. Sharpe for the following copy of the inscription 
on this drawing :—“ Aquila? strophiata. Type of the subgenus Hemiaetus, 
mihi.” 


