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materials at my disposal are not sufficient to determine whether this is merely a 

 local race. 



In the Indian Museum, Calcutta, besides the Tenasserim and Yunnan 

 specimen referable to F. saturatus, there is another example from Samaguting, 

 Assam, 



Genus Microhierax, Sharpe. 

 7. Microhierax c^rtjlescens, Linn. 



Falco cisrulescens, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 126, 1766. 



Harpagus carulescens, Swain., Classif. B., vol. ii, p. 213, 1837. 



Rierax bengalensis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xi, p. 780, 184-2. 



Hierax eutolmus, vel bengalensis, Hodgson, in Gray's Zool. Misc., p. 81, 1842. 



Hierax ccerulescens, Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 21, 1844. 



Hierax eutolmus, Gray, Lc, p. 21, 1844; Jerdon, Birds Ind., vol. i, 1862, p. 42 ; Blanford, Ibis, 



1870, p. 464. 

 Falco carulescens bengalensis, Sehl., Mus. P.-B. Falc, p. 33, 1862. 

 Microhierax carulescens, Sharpe, Cat. B., vol. i, p. 366, 1874. 



a.b. ? Sawady, Upper Burma, 30tli January 1875. 



c. 5 The left bank of Tapeng River, Tsitkaw, 1 1th February 1875. 



The following are the measurements of a pair : — 



Total length. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Tarsus. 



6-2 



3-9 



2-7 



0-80 



6-5 



4-3 



2-6 



0-85 



Z Tapeng Biver 

 $ Sawady 



I observed this bird on only two occasions, in the centre of a dense forest, perched 



in pairs on the summits of high trees, nearly denuded of their leaves. Erom the 



great altitude at which they were, it was extremely difficult to shoot them, but so 



little were they accustomed to fire-arms and unscared by the noise that they 



actually refused to move, as shot succeeded shot. This bird has a peculiar short 



metallic call. 



Genus Pern is, Cuvier. 

 8. Pernis ptilorhtnchus, Temminck. 



Falco ptilorhynchus, Temminck, PI. Col., t. i, pi. xliv, 1823. 

 Ternis ptilonorhynchus, Steph., Gen. Zool., vol. xiii, pi. xxxv, 1826. 

 Pertiis cristata, Cuvier, Regne An., t. i, p. 335, 1829. 

 Pernis torquata, Less., Traite d^Ornith., p. 76, 1831. 

 Pernis ruficollis, Less., I.e., p. 77, 1831. 

 Pernis albigularis. Less., /. c, p. 77, 1831. 

 Pernis maculosa. Less., in Belang. Voy. Ind., p. 223, 1834. 

 Pernis ellioti, James, Trans. Wern. Soc, vol. vii, p. 493, 1836. 

 Pernis bharatensis, Hodgson, in Gray^s Zool. Misc., p. 81, 1844, 

 Pernis apivorus, Temm. et Schlegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 24, 1850. 



Pertiis brachypieruSj Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. iii, p. 36, 1875 ; id., op. cit., p. 36 ; Fairbank, I. c, 

 p, 253. . 



a. Bhamo, February 1868. 



