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received it from Dibrugarh and from N.-E. Cachar, and 

 Godwin-Austen obtained it in the Naga hills, it is pro- 

 bably a regular visitant to Manipur, though not at the 

 season during which I visited that state. 



[During March one year a party of six birds, which were 

 hawking about the tea, and every now and again settling 

 on a dead tree, attracted my attention. I bagged two males, 

 which must be the specimens alluded to above by Mr. Hume. 

 I never again saw this species in the Dibrugarh district. — 

 J. K. 0.] 



I am not aware that it has as yet been observed in any 

 portion of B. Burmah. 



19&2S.— Oerchneis amurensis, Badde. 



Although I failed to secure any specimens of this species 

 I twice saw it— once in the Manipur basin and once in the 

 Eastern hills, on both occasions during May. Once a flight 

 of some 30 or 40 passed over me, not above 30 yards high, 

 when I was walking in the Residency grounds towards even- 

 mg with Colonel Johnstone and his family. The peculiar plu- 

 mage of the males was unmistakable. On another occasion 

 a_ single old male passed over me near Machi in the Eastern 

 hills, and I knocked it down apparently dead. It fell into 

 dense jungle a coupled of hundred feet below, and though I had 

 the whole place searched for hours by a whole army of Nagas, 

 several of whom were with me when I fired and saw it M\, 

 we never got it. A kind of pole cat, as well as I could make 

 out, had carried it off; they found a lot of its feathers both where 

 It fell and along the track of some kind of cat, which they traced 

 for nearly a mile through the dense jungle. The Nagas there 

 know the bird, and said that it was common at times, 

 and that then they did not see it again for months, but it 

 was impossible to make out from them clearly at what seasons 

 it came. I have received this also from N. E. Cachar and from 

 near Dibrugarh. 



[A regular cold weather visitant to the Dibrugarh district, 

 but never remaining for any length of time. Their flight is 

 very like that of Glareola orientalis, though not so heavy 

 as that of the latter species. On one occasion I saw one of 

 this species alight on the stump of a tree only five feet 

 off the ground. They skim along the tops of the tea bushes 

 m search of their prey, whereas G. peJcinensis flies high up 

 nearly out of range of an' ordinary gun.] 



I have seen a specimen from Northern Pegu which I have 

 now no doubt belonged to this species, though at the time 

 1 was uncertain whether to assign it to amurensis or vesper- 



