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materials at my disposal are not suflacient 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^rulescens, Linn. 



Faieo cmrulescens, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, p. 126, 1766. 



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



Hierax bengalensis, Blyth, Joiirn. As. Soo., Bengal, vol. xi, p. 780, 1842. 



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



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



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



1870, p. 464. 

 Falco cceridescens hengalensis, Schl., Mus. P.-B. Falc., p. 33, 1862. 

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



a. b. $ Sawady, Upper Burma, SOth January 1875. 



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



The following are the measurements of a pair : — 



t 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. Prom 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 ptilorhynchus, Temminck. 



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

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

 Pernis 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, 18o4. 

 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 Scblegel, Faun. Jap. Aves, p. 24, 1850. 



Pernis braeJiyplerus, Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. iii, p. 36, 1875 ; id., op. cit., p. 36 ; Fairbank, t. c., 

 p, 253, 



a, Bhamo, February 1863. 



