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 1s 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 ou 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- 
_ larity, 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 hemipii- 
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- 











