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The measurements of my specimen are in inches : — 



<£ Length, 8 8; wing, 5-8; bill from gape, 65- ; tail, 2*75; tarsi, 

 10. 



Third primary exceeds first by 1 05 



81.— Ninox lugubris, Tick. 



This species is very common throughout the hilly tracts of 

 Orissa in Sambalpur, Jaipur, and Bustar. 



115. — Harpactes fasciatus, Gmel. 



On two occasions I came across the Malabar Trogon in the 

 district of Jaipur (Vizagapatam). On the first a female was shot 

 in the forest that clothes the steep ghats which rise from the 

 valley of the Tel river to the Jaipur Plateau. On the second 

 I just momentarily caught sight of a male which fluttered 

 past me, looking like a loose ball of feathers, across a path in 

 dense bamboo juugle along which I was riding. The following 

 links along the tract through which this species spreads 

 northwards, have now therefore been established. Dhalbhum 

 (Tickell) ; Rehrakole (Ball) ; Jaipur (Ball) ; Ahiri (R. Thomp- 

 son) ; Godaveri Valley (Blanford). 



118.— Merops philippensis, Lin. 



I met with this species in Jaipur and Raipur in April. I have 

 never seen it in these regions or in Chutia Nagpur before the hot 

 weather. 



171— Gecinus striolatus, Blyth. 



This species occurs, I believe, sparingly throughout. I did 

 not, however, shoot it south of Patna (Sambalpur). 



193 — Megalaima caniceps, Frank. 



This species of Barbet is abundant, and I shot it in most of 

 the districts which I visited — including Jaipur. I did not meet 

 Avith either of the southern species of Barbets. 



205.— Hierococcyx varius, Vahl. 



This Hawk Cuckoo occurred in such abundance in Jaipur 

 and the south of Raipur that its cry became a positive nui- 

 sance and source of irritation, both by day and night. In one 

 particular instance a bird which occupied a tree close to my 

 camp was, to the best of my belief, not silent for ten minutes 

 together out of the twenty-four hours. Though driven away 

 from time to time, he would return, and his shrill notes disturbed 

 me repeatedly during the night. 



