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tree ; their most favorite seat seems to be a dead tree barked 

 by the Burmese in the middle of one of their half-cleared 

 cotton fields. I once saw a pair on a tree in a dry rice field, but 

 on every other occasion the ground was covered partially with 

 bushes, cotton plants, &c. I have found them from the level of 

 the Irrawaddy to the highest cultivated patches in the hills 

 about Thayetmyo. I have never seen one in a large open space or 

 in thick jungle/' 



17.— Timmnculus alaudarius, Gm. 



This is another species which Captain Feilden informs me 

 that he has obtained at Thayetmyo, although he did not send 

 specimens. 



Mr. Oates remarks : " I saw a number of these birds for the 

 first time last November ; they were flying round the large 

 pagoda at Shwaybongah opposite Prome, and occasionally 

 perching on the summit, far out of shot. 



" The Kestril is a common bird, I find, in the Pegu plains ; 

 I have seen a dozen together." 



19.— Erythropus vespertinus,Zm./ ? E. amurensis, 



JRadde. 



The only specimen I have seen from Thayetmyo was sent by 

 Captain Feilden. It is quite a young bird ; sex, not ascertained ; 

 length, 11 inches; and wing, exactly 9 inches; the whole of the 

 under- wing coverts, white, barred with brown. In this stage it is 

 impossible, I think, to distinguish the eastern and western 

 forms of the Orange-legged Hobby. (Fide Stray Feathers, 

 Vol. II, p. 527.) 



Captain Feilden says : " I saw four of these birds hawking 

 over a dry field in January, and a fifth early in February, seated 

 on the top of a tall tree ; they appeared to be migrating. Food, 

 cockroaches." 



20. — Microhierax coerulescens,Zm. ? M. eutolmos, 



Hodgs. 



Captain Feilden says : " The Red-legged Falconet occurs in 

 Burmah, at any rate as far down as Rangoon. It appears to re- 

 main throughout the year, as I have shot it in August, October, 

 November, and February." 



Mr. Oates remarks : " Not uncommon in Upper Pegu ; I have 

 procured it in January, February, August, October and November, 

 but cannot say if it is migratory. Feeds'* entirely on large 



* This is certainly the general rule, but we have on several occasions found 

 the flesh, and even some of the feathers, of small birds iu their stomach?. 



