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il. Hobby — Falco 1 cannot be absolutely certain but am almost 

 suhbuteo. sure I saw this species once, late in the evening. 



It might have been "barbarus," but the flight and 

 mode of hunting was that of a hobby. 



12. Kestrel — Tin- I could not be sure which, but one of the Kestrels 

 nunculus alauda- it certainly was. I saw one flying at a heif^ht over 

 rius or Lesser Ashar and another at Bagdad. 



Kestrel — T.cen- 

 chris. 



13. Saker Falcon — I saw one strike a sandgrouse near Shaik Sad 

 Falcon cherrug. on the bank of the Tigris. It had to give up its 



prey to a Steppe Eagle. 



14. Merlin — Msalon One pair took up its quarters in the palm grove 

 regulus. behind the 3rd Echelon. They hunted singly 



and might be seen any morning or evening beat- 

 ing over the groves, but never together. On 3 

 occasions I visited the grove during the day and 

 found both, though not together, but within a 

 short distance of each other, resting for the day. 

 lo. Steppe Eagle — The only one T saw was the one mentioned 

 Aquila bifasciata. under the Saker Falcon. A typical one with the 

 lines on the wings very well defined. 

 There was one other bird which I failed to recognise, although I saw it 

 twice. In size, shape and flight and colouring it closely resembled 

 Aquila vindhiana and had I seen the same in India, I should have unhesi- 

 tatingly put it down as a Tawny Eagle, but as this species is not supposed 

 to occur outside of Indian limits and as I did not get to within a hundred 

 yards or so of it, I omit it from the list. 



C. H. DONALD, f.z.s. 

 Dharmsala Cantt., 

 '2nd February 1919. 



No. XII.— EXTENSION OF RANGE OF THE GREEN IMPERIAL 

 PIGEON CCARFOPHAGA ^NEA ^ENEA) IN WESTERN INDIA. 



The Green Imperial Pigeon, Carpophaga cenea oenea, according to Mr. Stuart 

 Baker in " Indian Pigeons and Doves," is not found further north in the 

 Bombay Presidency than the north of North Kanara. He does, however, 

 not make any mention of the skin in the British Museum labelled 

 "Bombay" and presented by Col. Sykes of which Blanford in the 4th 

 Volume of the Fauna of British India writes in a footnote as follows : — 



" There is in the British Museum a, specimen labelled Bombay from 

 Sykes's collection, but the species is not recorded in Sykes's list, and a 

 specimen of the Himalayan Dendrotreron Tiodgsoni, also from Sykes's collec- 

 tion, occurs similarly labelled. Butler, in the 'Bombay Gazetteer', says that 

 Carpophaga oenea was included in Major Lloyd's Konkan lists and that he 

 maj' have seen it once himself at Khandala. But neither Fairbank nor 

 Vidal records it." 



It is therefore interesting to be able to record that a skin of this pigeon, 

 shot on Tungar Hill near the Basseiu Road, B. B. & C. I. Railway station, 

 34 miles north of Bombay, on 19th January 1919, has been presented to 

 the Society's Museum by Mr. M. Frei. This was the only specimen 

 obtained by Mr. Frei, but he writes that several birds were seen. 



N. B. KINNEAR. 

 Bombay Natural History Society, 

 Bombay, 30i^ January 1919. 



