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The addition of the following 36 species brings up the record from the 

 eastern districts and hill-frontier to 528 species, a number which, with so 

 many zealous collectors in the party, I trust will be still further augmented 

 before the survey is completed. 



16. Htpotbioechis chicqueea, Daud. 

 From Sylhet. 



18. Eeythboptts (Ceechsteis) Pekikeksis, Swinhoe. . 

 This specimen was submitted for identification to Mr. Gumey, who 

 says it is too immature in plumage to enable him to decide whether it is 

 really the above or the European species, and who, moreover, doubts the 

 validity of E. Pehinensis. But as birds from the Naga, Hills are far more 

 likely to be similar to those from China, I have given it Swinhoe's title, 

 following Jerdon in his ' Supplemental Notes to the ' Birds of India" 

 in ' The Ibis' for 1871. 



25. Accipiteb vtrgattis, Temm. 

 Obtained by Mr. Chennell near Debrughur. 



41ff. POLIOAETTJS PLTTMBETTS, Hodgson. 



I have a fine specimen, evidently a female, from the Naga Hills, agree- 

 ing with Dr. Jerdon's description in his Supplementary Notes (op. supra 

 cit. p. 336). This was sent for identification to Mr. Gurney, who in reply 

 says — " The one marked humilis is plumbeus of Hodgson, which I think 

 must be admitted as a good species." Mr. Skarpe, in his ' Catalogue of the 

 Accipitres', does not recognize P. phmheus, but places it as a synonym of 

 P. ichthyaetus, considering Hodgson's drawing an unfinished picture of the 

 large species ; but Hodgson surely would not have omitted, even in an un- 

 finished drawing, the broad white bar on the tail, the colouration of the tail 

 being the most important character both in P. humilis and P. plumbeus. 

 The description of the bird now recorded will run as follows : 

 On back and shoulder of wing pale umber-brown, with ash- coloured 

 feathers coming hi on the centre of back ; the tail is of the same colour but 

 darker, increasing in intensity to the end, with no white save at the very 

 roots of the rectrices. Head hoary grey, passing into ashy brown on the nape, 

 with an admixture of some pure plumbeous feathers. The primaries are 

 very dark umber-brown, some of the larger coverts splashed with a more 

 rufous paler brown, the traces of the previous phase of colouration ; the first 



