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Show 1875.] RAPTORIAL BIRDS OF INDIA. 25 48. POLIORNIS TEESA, Frankl. This Buzzard, as is well known, lays absolutely colourless eggs of the Goshawk type ; the occurrence, therefore, of a clutch of coloured eggs will doubtless prove interesting to oologists. One of these eggs is very well marked with reddish-brown blotches at the obtuse end, covering nearly half the surface of the egg ; the second is faintly marked with light greyish-brown spots at the small end, somewhat in the form of a zone; and the third has still fainter indications of colouring-matter at the same end. 50. CIRCUS CYANEUS, Linn. Admitted into previous lists through an oversight. 51. CIRCUS PALLIDUS, Sykes. I shot a fine male a few days ago in the act of carrying away a live Partridge. This Harrier lives chiefly on small birds, and is more game-like than its congener, the Marsh-Harrier. 56. MILVUS GOVINDA, Sykes. 56 bis. M I L V U S M A J O R , H u m e (=ilf. melanotis, Temm.). 56tris. M I L V U S PALUSTRIS, nobis (=juv.--Af. govinda, Sykes). I take this opportunity of withdrawing the " small Marsh-Kite " described at page 142, J. A. S. for 1873, as it appears to be the young of tbe common Govinda Kite, which is subject to considerable variation in size as well as in colour. W e have, after all, only two species of Kite in India, viz. the large migratory one (M. melanotis) and the resident one (M. govinda). Mr. Brooks is of opinion that Sykes's measurements refer to M. melanotis, and not to M. govinda, and that the term M. affinis, Gould, should be applied to the common resident bird. This may be correct enough ; but I doubt whether this complicated nomenclature will be generally adopted. *74. EPHIALTES PENNATUS, Hodg. *74 bis. EPHIALTES SUNIA, Hodg. Until specimens in a transitional stage have been procured, and their identity thus established, it appears advisable to keep these two little Owls distinct for the present. Of each species I have obtained three live specimens ; the red ones are most lovely little creatures. They were caught with bird-lime in September and October last, during cloudy weather, when they seemed to sally forth in search of food at all hours of the day. I kept them alive in a large cage for nearly a week, in company with several Ephialtes griseus, feeding them on crickets, mice, and occasionally with raw meat. M y first red Scops was captured on 13th of September last, in the Station Park. Some boys, who were in the habit of catching birds for me by means of a long bamboo fishing-rod, the tip of which was forked and smeared with bird-lime, informed me in great haste (one |