8 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



Nor did Godwin-Austen apparently get it in the Garo, Khasi 

 or Naga hills. I have received it, however, from near 

 Dibrugarh, and have also a specimen (which should, however, 

 probably be referred to the larger Oriental form melaschistus) 

 from Shillong in the Khasi hills. 



[This species too is rather common in the Dibrugarh dis- 

 trict, but although I have shot it in May, June and September, 

 I am uncertain as to its breeding in the district. — J. R. C] 



Bisus is a rare straggler to the Tenasserim hills and 

 Northern Pegu, and has occurred off the Arakan coast near 

 Akyab. 



I once saw a very small Accipiter, which I took to be 

 25 — A. virgatus, Reinh., but I failed to secure it, and have 

 therefore no certainty about it. It has, however, been sent from 

 Dibrugarh, and is a rare visitant to Northern Tenasserim, 

 Northern Pegu and Arakan. 



27bis. — Aquila nipalensis, Hodgs. 



A few frequent the northern half of the basin, about the 

 capital, during the cold season. I shot none in the wetter 

 southern portion and none in the hills. I only shot two, for 

 they were wild and difi&cult to circumvent, but I saw from 

 first to last probably a score. Besides those I killed I have 

 noted seeing five others in the neighbourhood of the capital — a 

 pair circling over Buri Bazar and another perched on a tree half 

 way between that place and Bishnoopur, and I did not note 

 half the specimens I saw. I fancied I once or twice saw it at 

 the Logtak lake, but none of the Eagles I shot there, some twenty 

 in number, proved to belong to this species, and it is one 

 that affects dry rather than damp localities, so I was proba- 

 bly mistaken. 



This species has not yet been recorded from any part of 

 Assam, Sylhet and Cachar, but I have a single specimen from 

 Shillong in the Khasi hills. 



It occurs, for the most part sparingly, in many portions 

 of Pegu, and has been sent from Arakan. Davison obtained 

 the remains of one near Moulmeia and saw it once or twice 

 in the Tenasserim hills, but it is very rare in that province. 



There is a sad confusion in the entries in regard to this 

 species in some past volumes, because at one time, following the 

 B. M. C, we applied the name Tnogilnik (which really 

 applies to the white shoulder patch Imperial Eagle) to this 

 present species. 



28.— Aquila clanga, Fall 



Seen only at the Logtak lake, but there they are very 

 common and easily shot; being constantly seen perched on the 



