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first noticed near Yarkand in April, and the last specimen was observed about the end of August. 

 The natives say that it is a permanent resident, but he never observed any during the winter, and 

 believes that they arrive about March or April. Col. Bicklulph obtained it on the Karakash in 

 October at an elevation of 16,500 feet, and noticed a few in the summer in Kashghar. 



According to Mr. Blanford (Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 378) this Kite is " a migratory 

 bird in India, appearing in the Peninsula as far south as Bombay and the Godavari Valley, and 

 in Burma as far as Rangoon, in the cold season. I obtained one near Badrachellam on the 

 Godavari as late as April." 



Mr. Ball records it from Chutia Nagpur, and also obtained it in Denkenal (Orissa) and in 

 Sonpur and Kalahandi (Sambalpur). Towards the southern parts of Sambalpur and Raipur he 

 frequently saw it, and in places it occurred apparently to the total exclusion of Milvus govinda. 

 Mr. Inglis (Str. Feath. ix. p. 245) found it very common during the cold weather in North- 

 eastern Cachar, arriving early in September and leaving about May. 



According to Mr. Oates (B. of Brit. Burmah, ii. p. 204) it is " common in the southern parts 

 of Pegu, in the large grass-plains between the Pegu and Sittang Rivers, from October to February, 

 and probably till later." Severtzoff records it from the Pamirs, and, according to Prjevalski 

 (Rowley's Orn. Misc. ii. p. 152), " throughout Mongolia, Kan-su, and about Koko-nor it is 

 common, and in some localities even extremely numerous. We found it in the wild deserts 

 of Ala-shan, as well as in the alpine regions of the Kan-su mountains, where it ascends to an 

 altitude of 12,000 feet above the sea-level 



" Tn S.E. Mongolia the Kites arrive about the middle of March ; in April they commence 

 repairing or building their nests, which are always situated in trees, and not on rocks. In Ala- 

 shan they breed even on the low sacsaulnic bushes. It winters in great numbers about Pekin, 

 but in the higher-situated Kolgan it is only a summer visitant. According to my companions' 

 observations, the first Kites appeared at Kolgan on the 10th February in 1872." 



In China it appears to be common and very generally distributed. Pere Armand David 

 observed it about Pekin in large numbers throughout the year. Swinhoe records it from Chefoo ; 

 Mr. Seebohm from Central China; and Mr. Styan refers to it (Ibis, 1887, p. 234) as being 

 " extremely abundant all over the cultivated country near Foochow. They begin to breed about 

 February, and nest in clumps of pines near villages." 



Referring to the presence of this Kite on the Lower Yangtse Basin, Mr. Styan says (Ibis, 

 1891, p. 490) that it is " very abundant. I am inclined to think an annual migration takes place, 

 and they certainly shift their quarters. At Shanghai few or none are to be seen in summer, but 

 numbers arrive in September or October and remain all the winter. In 1883 the first one I 

 saw return was on October 11th; on the following day a party of twelve appeared, circled over 

 the river a few minutes, and then disappeared to the S.W. At Chefoo one year throughout 

 August only one or two solitary Kites were about, but on the 29th a large number appeared on 

 the cliffs and shore. At Kiukiang they remain throughout the year." Throughout Japan it is, 

 according to Messrs. Blakiston and Pryer, very numerous, as also at Eturop Island, one of the 

 Kuriles, during the fishing-season. 



Kalenowski records it as common in the Corea at all seasons of the year ; and Mr. Campbell 

 states (Ibis, 1892, p. 244) that is a constant resident at Soul. It ranges north into Siberia. 



According to Pallas this Kite had not then been met with east of the Lena River; but 



