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Bill blackish, bluish at base ; cere, gape, eyelids and bare 

 orbital space, rather pale yellow ; legs and feet dull, rather 

 clayey yellow ; claws, black. 



I have this species from N.-E. Cachar, but from no other loca- 

 lity in either Sylhet or Cachar, From Jonkotollee (Dibrugarh) 

 however I have received it, and it probably occurs in suitable 

 localities, wherever there are broken or hilly forest tracts, 

 throughout Assam. 



[Pretty common in the Dibrugarh district, frequenting 

 tea gardens, and the edges of the forests bordering the tracts 

 of paddy lands. Several were noticed knocking about the 

 garden in August, and a specimen was shot as late as the 

 18th of May, so that they retire to the hills to breed from 

 June to the middle of August — J. R. C] 



It must doubtless occur in British Burmah, but I seem to 

 have no specimen thence nor any authentic record of its having 

 been actually procured there. And similarly, though it has 

 certainly, I understand, been sent from Malacca, we have 

 never yet succeeded in meeting with a single specimen any- 

 where in the Malay peninsula. 



16. — Falco chiquera, Daud. 



Close to Noongzai-ban itself, a male of this unmistakable 

 species passed within 20 yards of me at about the level of 

 my feet. I was lighting a cheroot at the moment, but caught 

 up my gun instantly and fired. However either I missed or 

 the bird had got too far for No. 10 shot, and I saw no more of 

 it, nor did I ever again see a specimen in Manipur, though I met 

 with it both in Cachar and Sylhet. It has not yet been 

 observed anywhere in the valley of Assam, nor does it extend 

 I believe to any part of British Burmah. 



17.— Cerchneis tinnunculus, Lin. (Jfaw— Koonoo- 



Karang.) 



In tlie hills this species was comparatively rare; in the 

 basin of Manipur very common. I have often seen half a 

 dozen in a morning. 



It occurs throughout the valley and hills of Assam to our 

 extreme eastern outpost, in Sylhet and Cachar, Arakan, Pegu, 

 and the northern and central plains portions of Tenasserim. 



[Very common during the cold weather throughout the 

 Dibrugarh district. — J. B. C] 



18&2s.~-"Cerchneis pekinensis, Swinh. 



I never myself shot or saw this species, but I examined an 

 adult shot in the Northern Manipur hills, and as I have 



