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but I have a very fine specimen of this species from Shillong 

 in the Khasi hills. 



22Ms.—Astu.T rufitinctus, McClell. 



Unknown in the basin of Manipur, it is by no means un- 

 common in the Eastern hills, and I once saw it in the Western 

 hills. It occurs, I know, in the Northern hills. 



Godwin-Austen obtained it near Asalu in the Naga hills, 

 and I have received it from Tippook near Dibrugarh, and 

 from N. E. Cachar. It has been received or recorded from 

 various localities in the Tenasserim hills from Karenee to 

 Bankasoon, throughout which, however, it is very rare. It 

 has occurred in the north Pegu hills, and Blyth gives it from 

 Arakan. 



235^s.— Astur poliopsis, Hume. 



I never met with this in any part of the Manipur hills, 

 though it may doubtless stray into some of the low valleys. In 

 the basin of Manipur it occurs, but even there is rather scarce, 

 less so in the south about Moirang and Soognoo, more so north 

 of the capital. 



As in the case of the allied A. badius, the color of the 

 irides, even in apparently old males, varies from intense yellow 

 to bright ruby red. Usually the legs and feet are yellow, 

 duller and faintly greenish on the tarsi ; claws black ; bill 

 blackish, pale dingy blue on each side of upper mandible just 

 above the gape and on all but the tip of the lower mandible. 

 All the Manipur specimens are true poliopsis, precisely iden- 

 tical with Peguan and Tenasserim examples. 



In Assam its limits are at present uncertain. I have 23 — A. 

 hadius, Gm., from Sylhet, Dibrugarh (Avhere Cripps says it is 

 pretty common and a permanent resident) and Shillong, and 

 Godwin-Austen records it from the Eastern Naga hills, while 

 I have both this and poliopsis from Cachar. 



Poliopsis is common throughout Tenasserim and Pegu, and 

 though Blyth records badius from Arakan, this was before this 

 present species had been discriminated, and I suspect that the 

 Arakan bird also is really poliopsis. 



24. — Accipiter nisus, Lin^ 



I only once shot this and that in the Western hills, but I on 

 several occasions saw what I believed to be this species. At 

 the same time Manipur is somewhat outside the range of 

 this species, and the birds I saw may have been some other 

 Accipiter. 



This species has never been recorded from Cachar or Sylhet. 



