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a" White bands on abdominal feathers in- 

 terrupted at shafts S. nepalensis. 



(Hodgson's Hawk-Eagle.) 

 b" White bands go completely across abdo- 

 minal featherS"...... S. Jcelaarti. 



(Legg's Hawk-Eagle,) 



d' Small: wing about 9^" ,.., ..., S. albiniger. 



(Blyth's Hawk-Eagle.) 

 This brings us on to the Serpent and Fish-Eagles which I have not included 

 here as they might prove confusing. The above mentioned only contain the 

 species which have their tarsi feathered and form the true Eagles and the 

 Hawk-Eagles, whereas none of the Serpent or Fish-Eagles have their tarsi 

 feathered or only partially so. 



Blanford, on p. 342, gives the following distinctions between the true Eagles 

 and the Hawk-Eagles : — 



" They (Hawk-Eagles) are birds of more slender build, with smaller bills 

 " longer and more slender tarsi, and longer tail than the true Eagles and most 

 " of them are in some phase of plumage, partly or wholly white beneath.'" 



Bhadarv^a, C. H. DONALD. 



Kashmir State, August 1902, 



No. v.— NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE OP CERTAIN BIRDS 

 IN SOUTH SYLHET. 



The following notes may possibly be of interest as showing one or two 

 species of birds that do not commonly occur to my knowledge in the plains 

 of Cachar though the two districts more or less adjoin. 



Coracias inclica is common here though I do not think met with in Cachar 

 unless I am mistaken. Mr, Baker does not mention it in his " Birds of N, 

 Cachar " and personally I never came across it. 



Halcyon pileata is I now find to be met with in small numbers here ; I 

 have collected one specimen and come across four or five others, one of 

 which my collector fired at but unfortunately failed to bag it. I think it may 

 breed here. 



Caprimulgus monticola has been much in evidence during the past two 

 months, March and April, breeding plentifully on the grassy and stony tilahs 

 round the garden. It seems a fairly quiet bird at other times of the year but 

 while breeding its peculiar plaintive cry is heard from dusk till nightfall and 

 is again renewed from about 4 a.m. until very nearly sunrise. C. alhonotatus 

 on the other hand utters its monotonous notes of " chuck chak chuck" almost 

 the whole night, at this time of the year, a most irritating sound if several 

 birds take up their quarters near one's bungalow. 



Cinnyris hasselti I do not think can at all commonly breed in the plains 

 portion of the district as I now find that very feic are seen after the middle of 



