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56 bis. — Milvus melanotis, Tern. 8f Schl. The Large 

 Pariah Kite. 



Permanent resident in all probability. Not common. 

 Mr. Hume mentions having obtained a single specimen in the 

 Bombay Harbour. I have no other lecord of its occurrence 

 throughout the region. 



57. — Pernis ptilorhynchus, Tern. The Crested Honey 

 Buzzard. 



Permanent resident. Locally not uncommon, but in some 

 districts very rare or absent altogether. It occurs in the 

 Deccan and again in the jungles west of Belgaum ; but Mr. 

 Vidal has not as yet met with it in Ratnagiri. I procured 

 specimens at Satara and in the neighbourhood of Belgaum. 



59. — Elanus cceruleus, Besf. The Black-winged 

 Kite. 



Permanent resident. Not uncommon in many localities, and 

 distributed generally throughout the plains portion of the 

 region, but as yet has not been recorded from Ratnagiri, neither 

 is it found, that I am aware of, on the hills. It seems to be 

 particularly common about Poona, Sholapur and in many 

 other parts of the Deccan, and it is not uncommon about 

 Belgaum. 



60. — Strix javanica, Gm. The Eastern Screech Owl. 



Permanent resident. Common in many localities through- 

 out the region, especially in Belgaum and in the Deccan, and 

 generally distributed throughout the region, including Ratna- 

 giri. 



? 61.— Strix Candida, Tick. The Grass Owl. 



Mr. Fairbank says he has more than once flushed a Grass Owl 

 that he believes to be this, and on his authority I have given 

 it a place in the list as a doubtful species ; but as no other col- 

 lector has noticed it within the region, and as Mr. Fairbank 

 omits Asio accipitrinus in his list of Mahratti species which is 

 common and frequents the very ground he mentions, possibly 

 he may have mistaken that for the present species. 



63 — Syrnium indranee, Sykes. The Brown Wood- 

 Owl. 



Uncommon and confined to the Ghats and adjacent forests. 

 Mr. Laird has obtained it west of Belgaum, and Mr. Fairbank 

 at Mahableshwar and along the Sahyadri Range. Mr. Vidal 

 also records it from Ratnagiri. 



