2 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



Both, 2 — Otogyps calvus, Scop, and 4 — Gyps indicus, Scop, 

 were observed by me alike in Sylhet and Cachar, but I never 

 saw either of them in any part of Manipur, though I was 

 constantly expecting and looking out for them. Both also 

 occur in the valley of Assam. 



[Otogyps calvus, Scop., is a permanent resident in the 

 Dibrugarh district, and by no means rare. Wherever a crowd 

 of the common Vulture were collected over a carcase, one or 

 two of this species was sure to be also. G. indicus I never 

 saw or at least identified. — J. E. C] 



Observations in regard to the occurrence of Gyps indicus 

 mast always be accepted with hesitation if no specimen has 

 been procured. At one stage of its plumage the young hengalen- 

 sis, at a distance, closely resembles the eastern race of indicus 

 (the true indicus of Scop, as I suppose it to be), such as one 

 gets in Lower Bengal and Assam. On one occasion in Mani- 

 pur I made sure that I had met with indicus, and that, too, 

 after examining it at less than a quarter of a mile's distance 

 with good binoculars. It was for some reason very wild. I 

 spent nearly a day following it about, and to my disgust on 

 at last shooting it discovered it to be only a young bird oihenga- 

 lensis. Beavan, it will be remembered (P. Z. S., 1866, p. 3) 

 recorded it from near Moulmein, but all further investiga- 

 tions have gone to show that this species does not occur in 

 Tenasserim (from the list of whose birds it should for the 

 present at any rate be excluded), and it is most probable that 

 he was deceived in the same way as myself, the more so that 

 he does not appear to have shot or preserved any specimens. 

 At the same time indicus does undoubtedly occur in Upper 

 Pegu and Arakan and in the Assam valley, where however it 

 seems rare, so that its non-occurrence, as well as that of 

 0. calvus in Manipur, is noteworthy. 



8.— Falco peregrinus, Gm. 



Only once seen at the Logtak lake in the Manipur basin, 

 where I shot a male as it struck at a Teal I had wounded. 

 The boatmen did not recognize the bird, and it must be 

 therefore, I fancy, a rare visitant. It occurs in both Sylhet 

 and Cachar and in the valley of Assam, whence I have a 

 specimen from nearly as far east as Dibrugarh. 



[Pretty common in the Dibrugarh district about the more 

 open parts of the country, such as tea gardens, where they 

 frequent the larger dead trees. On one occasion, when going 

 down the " Brahmaputra" river in a " dug-out," with a couple 

 of friends, we rescued a male Q. crecca that had been wounded 

 by one of this species, about 100 yards in front of us. — J. R. C] 



