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Show 1868.] MR. R. C. BEAVAN ON INDIAN RAPTORES. 393 tion on the line of the East-Indian Railway, distant from Calcutta only 120 miles. In the small intervening space of low, wet, and rice-covered ground it is never to be seen ; but directly the dry, sandy, corn-producing country occurs, there it is to be found in abundance. It is occasionally seen in the uplands of Maunbhoom and Bancoorah, but may be described as rare in the latter district, except sometimes in the cold weather. It is especially abundant at Allahabad and at Umballah, where the late Dr. Scott made several observations on it during his long residence there. Some of his notes I subjoin. The sexes copulate on the ground, and, unlike most birds, take some time about this operation. They breed about Umballah in March ; and although during the time I was at that station in the spring of 1866 I was unable to secure a nest, Dr. Scott told me that there are generally one or two in his garden, and promised me the eggs, which I subsequently got. Its range extends as far into the Himalayas as Simla, where, with the Bearded Vulture, Milvus govinda, and Gyps bengalensis, it performs its share of the scavenger work of the station, and is consequently of the greatest use. A Simla specimen had the irides a reddish-pink colour, and legs fleshy. Jerdon gives " dark brown " for the first, and dirty yellow for the colour of the legs. 7. GYPAETUS BARBATUS, Linn. The Bearded Vulture. Simla, July 20th, 1866. A fine specimen of a young male sent to m e by Col. Tytler, which had been shot by his son in the station. Sex, by dissection, a male. The bird when brought was still alive, so that the colour of the fleshy parts here given may be depended on. Length 45 inches ; wing 29 \; tail 20§; tarsus 4|; bill at gape 3f, at front 3, height of bill at base 1| in.; extent across wings 8 ft. 4|in. Irides pale buff colour, sclerotic membrane orange-red ; bill greenish horny ; feet bluish plumbeous. This bird is very abundant at Simla, and may generally be seen quartering slowly over a certain beat along the hill-sides. It does not appear at all wary, as I frequently saw it over Col. Tytler's house, which happened to be favourably placed under a well-known beat of the species along the sides of Mount Jacko. I have seen it after dead cattle, in company with other Vultures, a few miles from Kalka, close to the foot of the hills, elevation perhaps 500 ft. I never observed this bird in the Darjeeling hills ; but it doubtless exists there. 11. FALCO JUGGER, Gray. The Luggar Falcon. I only once procured a specimen of this species, at Ambekanuggur in the Maunbhoom district, in January 1865. 16. HYPOTRIORCHIS CHIQUERA, Daud. The Turunti or Redheaded Merlin. Umballah, November 5, 1866. Shot the cf out of a pair which were alternately stooping on the racecourse at the small Lark Pipit. Length 12| inches; wing 8 ; tail 5} ; tarsus l/6 ; spread of foot underneath 2\ ; bill at front f, at gape |, height at base § : cere and |