412 NOTES ON BIRDS OBSERVED IN THE REGION BETWEEN 



56 bis.— Milvus melanotis, Temm et Schl. ? M. major, 

 " Hume. 



I have already recorded the occurrence of this species in 

 Chutia Nagpur. I have also shot it in Denkenal (Orissa) and in 

 Sonpur and Kalahandi (Sambalpur). Towards the southern 

 parts of Sambalpur and Raipur I frequeutly saw it, and in 

 places it occurred apparently to the total exclusion of M. 

 govinda. 



70.— Bubo coromandus, Lath. 



In Chutia Nag-pur I only saw a domesticated individual of 

 this species which was captured in Manbhum. Since then I 

 shot a specimen in Talchin (Orissa.) 



76 bis.— Heteroglaux blewitti, Hume, S. F., Vol. I., 

 p. 467—8. Sharpe Brit. Mus. Cat., Vol II. 



I have above mentioned that I obtained one specimen of 

 this species. It was shot during the day time in a mango grove 

 on banks of the Udet river in Karial, or about 150 miles 

 to the south of the locality where the type and hitherto unique 

 specimen was shot by Mr. Blewitt. 



From the descriptions of the type, my specimen differs 

 in one important particular, which, if it be found to be 

 general, must, I think, be regarded as a very strong argument 

 against the retention of the new genus Heteroglaux. In this spe- 

 cimen the third primary exceeds the fourth by about the same 

 amount that the fourth does the third in the type.* In other 

 words the wing is that of a carine {Athene). In my specimen 

 the covering of the toes consists of silky hairs, rather than 

 feathers, which while different from the bristles of C. brama 

 can scarcely, I think, though taken with the peculiar oblique 

 puncturation of the nostril, be considered as sufficient for 

 establishing generic difference. On the other hand there is the 

 strong resemblauce, not only in general characters, but even 

 in some details between the plumage of this species and that 

 of brama in favor of the view that they should not be gene- 

 rally separated. 



Of course it must be admitted that at present no final deci- 

 sion can be arrived at, as the only two known specimens differ 

 in this important respect. Possibly when brought together 

 and compared, it will be found that the quills in one of them 

 are not fully developed. 



* As figured in Sharpe's Catalogue. 



