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brown, feet yellow, bill yellowish, cere and eyelids yellow. — 

 J. R. C] 



It has been once procured in the northernmost portion of 

 British Burmah, and possibly occurs {vide S. F., VI., 30) 

 further south. 



72. — Ketupa ceylonensis, Gm. 



I met with a single specimen in the valley of the Limatak 

 in the Western hills, and heard it once or twice in the Eastern 

 hills also. I daresay it occurs in suitable localities throughout 

 Manipur, but it is extremely scarce. 



It occurs pretty well throughout Assam. I have it from 



Shillong, from near Dibrugarh* and from N.-E. Cachar. 



Though sparingly distributed it is found throughout B. 

 Burmah in suitable localities. 



From the people's description I strongly suspect that 

 73. — K. Jlavipes, Hodgs., occurs in the northern and north- 

 western Manipur hills. Godwin-Austen obtained a specimen 

 of this from the north Khasi hills, but it does not, that we 

 know of, extend to B. Burmah. 



74.— Scops pennatus, Hodgs. 



On the 19th of March I came across four birds of this 

 species in a thick tree in the outskirts of the village of 

 Moirang in the Manipur basin at the south of the Logtak 

 lake. I shot all four one after the other, but though I often 

 heard the bell-like whistled call in both Eastern and Western 

 hills I never shot or saw the bird again. Of the four birds three 

 were females and had the wings 6, 6, and 5"8 ; the fourth an old 

 male had the wing 5'6. These birds are identical with others 

 from Hazara to Tenasserim. 



I have it from Shillong in the Khasi hills, but from nowhere 

 else as yet in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet, though it is sure to 

 occur in all. 



[Common in the Dibrugarh district. Once one of these flew 

 into my bungalow at night. Often when it has been moonlight 

 I have watched them sitting and calling on my garden fence, 

 as well as on the bungalow roof. — J. R. C] 



It occurs, though sparingly, throughout Pegu and Tenasserim, 

 and Blyth records it, wrongly, under the name bakhamuna 

 from Arakan. 



* Cripps writes that " it is fairly oommnn in the Dibrugarh district, but 

 only where there is forest about. The Assamese call it Hoodoo." 



