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off the surface of the mud. I noticed it, too, at many places 

 along the coast south of Mergui, and on some of the islands 

 of the Archipelago, (but only on those on which a fishing 

 station had been established), at Malewoon, and up both banks 

 of the Pakchau many miles north of Kra. As far south 

 as Penang in the Malay Peninsular the bird may be said to 

 be common, but south of Penang, though I looked carefully for 

 it, I never met with it. — "W. D.] 



56 ter— Milvus affinis, Gould (3). 



Eyouknyat ; Pahpoon ; Kedai-Keglay. 



Rare in the province as a whole, but common enough in 

 the western central portion. 



[In October and November I noticed that this Kite was very 

 common about the shipping in the Moulmein river. I carefully 

 watched those I saw, but they all seemed to be of one and the 

 same species. In February 1876, while marching from 

 Thatone to the Sittang, I also saw numbers of these Kites, 

 but it is only in these neighbourhoods that these Kites are at 

 all numerous. On proceeding southwards their numbers dimin- 

 ish rapidly ; at Tavoy it is rare to see one, and at Mergui I 

 saw but one solitary individual all the time I was there. 

 Further south I never once observed it in Tenasserim, but at 

 Penang, Malacca and Singapore I occasionally noticed a small 

 Kite, doubtless of this species. — W. D.] 



Por distinctions between the three species of Kites at pre- 

 sent known to occur within the limits of our Indian Empire, 

 see S. F., L, 160; III., 229. 



57.— Pernis ptilorhyncha, Tern. (2). 



(TongTioO) Runs.) Moulmein; Amherst. 



Rare and confined to the central and north-western 

 portions of the province. 



[I only once saw a Honey Buzzard in Tenasserim, and 

 that was in Mr. Pattesson's garden in Moulmein where I 

 shot a female. Armstrong procured us one specimen at 

 Amherst.— W. D.] 



A rare bird in Tenasserim ; we only procured two specimens, 

 both of the ordinary Indian type, with only incipient crests. 



The following were the dimensions and colors of the soft 

 parts of an apparently adult male, (the lores and the whole sides 

 of the head grey,) shot at Moulmein : — 



Length, 23; expanse, 48'5 ; tail from vent, 10'5 ; wing, 16; 

 tarsus, 1-9, bill from gape, 1*7 ; weight, 1*75 Tr3s. 



The legs and feet were yellow ; claws black ; irides dark 

 brown (in adults in India they are usually brilliant yellow) ; 



