. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . oy that name for any of them ; the figureof Edwards on which it is founded cannot be satisfactorily referredto any one of the three. 1267. Microhierax eutolmus. The Bed-legged Falconet. lerax bengalensis {Brisson), aputl Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 180* (1843).Hierax eutolmus v. bengalensis, Hodyson in Gray^s Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844), descr. eutolmus, Blyth, Cat. p. 17; id. J. A. S. B. xix, p. 324; Horsf. Sf M. Cat. i, p. 15 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 42 ; Hume, Rouyh Notes, p. Ill; Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 464; J. A. S
. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma . oy that name for any of them ; the figureof Edwards on which it is founded cannot be satisfactorily referredto any one of the three. 1267. Microhierax eutolmus. The Bed-legged Falconet. lerax bengalensis {Brisson), aputl Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii, p. 180* (1843).Hierax eutolmus v. bengalensis, Hodyson in Gray^s Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844), descr. eutolmus, Blyth, Cat. p. 17; id. J. A. S. B. xix, p. 324; Horsf. Sf M. Cat. i, p. 15 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 42 ; Hume, Rouyh Notes, p. Ill; Blanf. Ibis, 1870, p. 464; J. A. S. B. xliii, pt. 2, p. 152 ; Hume, S. F. xi, p. cgerulescens {Linn.), Sharpe, Cat. B. M. \, p. 366 ; Hume ^- Oates, S. F. iii, p. 22; Binyham, S. F. v, p. 80; ix, p. 142; Hume, S. F. v. p. 126; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 3; Hume, Cat. no. 20 ; Oates, B. B. ii, p. 211; id. in HumesN.^E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 183; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) v, p. eutolmus, Gurney, Ibis, 1881, p. 272. Chiny-fin-nyel, Lepcha; Doun-oo-hnouh, Fig. 101.—Head of M. eutolmus, \. Coloration. Forehead, broad supercilia extending back to thesides of the neck, cheeks, and broad nuchal collar white; crown, MJCEOHIEEAX. 433 nape, and all the upper plumage, with the wings and tail, blackwith a metallic green gloss; feathers round the orbit and a bandrunnino- back from the eye and including the ear-coverts black ;quills black, with broad white spots on the inner webs ; alltail-feathers except the middle pair with white spots on the innerwebs, and when freshly moulted narrow white tips confined to theinner webs; lower parts white, more or less tinged with ferru-ginous, always deeply ferruginous on the chin, throat, thighs, lowerabdomen, and under tail-coverts; sides of the body black; wing-lining white. Young birds have the black of the upper parts less glossy, thefrontal band and supercilia chestnut, the chin and throat white,and the nuchal collar inconspicuous. Bill slaty
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