16 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



beyond Dollah is govinda, and this latter also occurs in various 

 places in Assam,* «Sz;c. 



57. — Pernis ptilorhynchus, Tern. 



I certainly identified and followed for a mile or more as it 

 dodged from tree to tree a bird of this species — one of the 

 dark brown type, with white, strongly black-striated lower 

 surface and no perceptible crest, but I failed to shoot it, so 

 some may hold it doubtful ; but I am certain of the identifica- 

 tion as I have shot scores and the flight and modes of move- 

 ment are unmistakable, let alone my having twice seen it 

 clearly at distances of 50 or 60 yards as it crossed openings 

 in the forest. This was six or seven miles east of the Jhiri in 

 the westernmost portion of Manipur, and as I had procured a 

 specimen in a precisely similar locality only four or five miles 

 west of the Jhiri in N.-E. Cachar, whence also Mr. Inglis 

 has sent me specimens, there can be no reasonable doubt 

 of the matter. I never saw it elsewhere in Manipur, and 

 if it occur at all east of the Noongzai-ban range, which I much 

 doubt, it must be extremely scarce. Except from N.-E. Cachar 

 I have received it from no other locality in Assam as yet. 

 In British Burmah it occurs sparingly, but its distribution 

 there has never been at all satisfactorily worked out. It 

 does not, I believe, occur in Southern Tenasserim (though it 

 extends much further south), and is very rare elsewhere in 

 that province. In Pegu it is perhaps a little less rare. 



58. — Baza lophotes, Cuv. 



I only once met with this species, and this was in the dense 

 low-lying forest near the western boundary of Manipur 

 between the Jhiri and Noongzai-ban. I never saw it elsewhere 

 in Manipur, but it is everywhere a rare bird, hard to see, 

 and crepuscular in its habits, and it may extend to other 

 parts of the Western and the Eastern hills. I have received it 

 from N.-E. Cachar, and Godwin- Austen obtained it near the 

 head of the Jhiri in the Khasi hills, but this is all I know 

 of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 



[Pretty common in the well-wooded parts of the Dibrugarh 

 district. On several occasions I have seen three and four of 

 them soaring in circles high in the air, as stated by Mr. Gray 

 on the authority of Dr. Jerdon. Occasionally, too, they may be 

 seen rising in the air some 30 or 40 feet, then coming down 



* \_Milvus govinda, Sykes. — Very common during the cold -weather, when they 

 may be seen hanging about the pools of water in the vicinity of villages. 

 During the rainy months every day they are to be seen iu the station of 

 Dibrugarh.— J. R. C] 



