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character when seen. It has often been compared to a Kite, 

 but it has never seemed to me a bit Kite-like in its flight, 

 outline and habits, or indeed like any other bird except a 

 Harrier. One day especially I Avatched one of these and 

 three or four Pied Harriers working backwards and forwards over 

 a brushwood-covered slope, at an elevation of about 3,500 feet, 

 sometimes above and sometimes below me, and despite the 

 difference in color and the much greater size of the Eagle, 

 the correspondence in shape and modes of movement was 

 most striking. 



This species has never as yet been observed in any part 

 of Assam, and only once in British Burmah by Davison near 

 the summit of Mooleyit. 



34.— Limnaetus caligatus, Raffl. 



Although I never procured a specimen I twice saw this 

 species in the Western hills and once in the Eastern near 

 enough to identify it with certainty. I have it from N.-E. 

 Cachar, and Godwin- Austen obtained it in the Khasi hills. 



[Pretty common in the Dibrugarh district, but from its 

 forest-loving habits not often seen. These birds have a 

 habit of shaking their tails from side to side when alighting 

 on a branch. — J. E-. C] 



It is generally, but rather sparingly, distributed throughout 

 the whole of British Burmah. 



37. — Lophotriorchis kieneri, Gew. ? 



Unknown in the basin, but met with both in the Western 

 and Eastern Manipur hills. The flight is far more powerful 

 than that of any of the Limnaeti, and the way in which 

 a male struck a Wood Partridge that flushed within ten yards 

 of me, reminded me more of the stroke of a Shaheen than of that 

 of a Hawk Eagle. I do not know whether it is that the 

 tail is shorter or the wings longer, but as this species passes 

 with rapid beats of its pinions overhead, it looks for all the 

 world like a gigantic Falcon. 



Mr. Gurney, I believe, scarcely considers this species generi- 

 cally separable from the Limnaeti, but assuredly its outline, 

 when alive, flight and stroke, are very different from that of any 

 of the five species of that genus that I have personally 

 observed. 



I have received this species from the North Cachar hills, 

 and Godwin- Austen obtained it from the Naga hills bounding 

 Manipur on the north. 



As yet I have no record of its actual occurrence in any part 

 of Burmah, though it must surely occur in Tenasserim, as we 



