ey NOTES ON SOME BIRDS COLLECTED 
Dholbhum having been the only recorded example from these 
jungles. 
' In January of the present year, when encamped at the 
village of Nakrideol in Rehrakole (a native state belonging to 
Sambalpur) I saw and shot my first specimen. The locality 
was an ancient mango-grove, with a copious undergrowth in 
which I also obtained several other interesting and rare birds. 
The bird in question suddenly rose from the ground in front 
of me and perched ona low branch. Seeing it was nota 
Taccocua, as I at the first glance supposed it to be, I was fairly 
puzzled as to its identity until I shot it, when I was rejoiced to 
find that it was a female Trogon. Nearly three months later, when 
returning through the same part of the country, I saw another 
female in the fine forest jungle to the west of Rampur (the 
chief town of Rehrakole). This I did not shoot, as it kept 
flitting from tree to tree in front of me, out of range, finally 
disappearing. 
My specimen contained a caterpillar, besides insects in its 
stomach, so that the species probably does not exclusively feed 
on the wing as is generally stated to be the case. 
The measurements taken in the flesh are :— 
Length, 11”°5; expanse, 18-25; wing, 5”; tail, 7”; tarsus, 
0”'6; bill from gape, 1”. 
246.—Salpornis spilonota, Frankl. 
I saw and shot only two specimens of the Spotted Grey 
Creeper in Sambalpur. It is probably quite as rare there as 
it is in Chota Nagpur. 
I shot them early in March on the south bank of the Maha- 
nadi, close to the village of Kurumkel, 22 miles north-west of 
Sambalpur town. 
273.—Pericrocotus brevirostris, Vigors. 
Together with a good series of P. speciosus which I recently 
collected in Sambalpur and the Tributary States of Orissa, I 
have three males of P. brevirostris from the former locality. 
They were all shot in February within six days of one another, 
and therefore in the same tract of country—the valley of the 
Ebe, about twenty miles north of the station of Sambalpur. 
Though I continued to meet with P. speciosus up till May, I did 
not see P. brevirostris again after the above given date. It is 
therefore most probable that it is only a cold-weather visitant 
to Sambalpur. In going to and fro it may very possibly pass 
through Lower Bengal, and the statement by Dr. Jerdon that 
it is a visitor there, though attributed by Mr. Blyth to a slip of 
the pen, is not improbably correct. 
