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From Arakan, Northern Pegu and Northern Central Tenas- 

 serim, we have also received it, but it seems compara- 

 tively rare everywhere east of the Brahmaputra. 



11.— Falco jugger, J. E. Gr. 



I shot an unmistakable female of this near Manipur town, 

 and on another occasion saw a male near the same place. 

 I never observed it on any other occasion, and had I not 

 examined one specimen myself, should have hesitated to record 

 it, for it has not yet been observed in Burmah or any part 

 of Assam, and it seems altogether outside of its normal range 

 in Manipur. It is just possible that the pair were chance 

 stragglers. Hawking is unknown in Manipur, and the Laggar 

 Falcon is moreover scarcely ever trained, now-a-days, any- 

 where, so these cannot have been escaped or released captive 

 birds. 



13.— Falco subbuteo, Lin. 



Only seen in the low narrow and western strip of Manipur, 

 lying between Noongzai-ban and the Jhiri early in February. 

 Elsewhere in Manipur, though it may occur as a straggler, 

 I never shot or saw it. I have received it from N.-E. Cachar, 

 but have no record of its occurrence elsewhere in Assam, or 

 anywhere in British Burmah. 



[A female shot in the Dibrugarh district in October 1885 

 measured :— Length, 1275 ; expanse, 3075 ; tail, 5-90 ; wing, 

 10-50 ; tarsus, 1-35 ; bill from gape, 080 ; weight, 8 5ozs. 



Legs and feet greenish yellow ; cere, eyelids, and orbital 

 skin yellowish green ; irides brown ; bill, above plumbeous, 

 deepening to black at the tip ; below base yellowish green, 

 rest plumbeous ; mouth inside bluish. This was the only 

 specimen I shot. She was feeding on winged termites at 

 dusk, and had also eaten a mouse and dragon flies. — J. R. C] 



14.— Falco severus, Horsf. 



This species also I only observed in the Jhiri valley. In 

 the tract referred to it seemed rather common. I shot at a 

 pair sitting side by side at the very top of a huge dead tree. 

 The female fell ; the male flew off apparently uninjured, the 

 length and narrowness of his wings being very striking and 

 quite swiftlike, as for some minutes he circled round and 

 round high in air. 



The following are details of this female, to judge by the 

 plumage, an old adult : — 



Length, 14-1 ; expanse, 2875 ; tail; 4*65 ; wing, 94 ; tarsus, 

 1-38 ; bill from gape, I'O ; weight; 12ozs, 



