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3.— Neophron ginginianus, Lin. (6.) 



The White Scavenger Vulture is common about villages, 

 especially those of the untidy aborigines. 



FALCONIMJ. 



4 — Falco jugger, Gray (11.) 



The Laggar Falcon is not abundant in Chota Nagpur. I 

 have seldom observed it, and only obtained one specimen which 

 I shot in Sirguja in 1872. 



Its measurements in inches are : — 



$ Wing 14-25 ; tail 8 S ; tarsus 19. 



5— Lithofalco clricquera, Baud (16.) 



The Turumti is of very rare occurrence in Chota Nagpur. 

 I can only remember having once met with it. This was 

 in Sirguja, where, on the 6th of March 1872, I met a pair 

 and shot the female which I have still in my collection. 



Measurements in inches : — 



Wing 7*85 ; tarsus 1*5. 



I only once observed it too in the Satpura hills. 



6.— Tinnimculus alaudarius, Briss. (17.) 



The Kestril is tolerably abundant in most parts of Chota 

 Nagpur. 



7 — Micronisus badius, Gmel. (23.) 



The Shikra has a somewhat local distribution in Chota Nag- 

 pur, but has been obtained in all the principal districts of the 

 Division. At the season of the jungle fires, numbers of these 

 birds assemble to hunt the grasshoppers and other orthopterous 

 insects which are compelled to take flight before the advancing 

 flames. 



8,— Accipiter nisus, Lin. Falco nisosimilis, 

 Tickell. (24.) 



The European Sparrow-Hawk was obtained by Colonel Tickell 

 at Marcha in Borabhum, where it frequents topes and culti- 

 vation. It must be rare as I never obtained a specimen. 



So far as I know, A. virgatus does not occur in Chota Nagpur. 

 At one time I was under the impression that it did, owing 

 to my having supposed a bird which afterwards turned out 

 to be only in one of the forms of plumage of M. badins to be 



