Pallas Sea Eagle is a common and permanent resident. There is not a jhil of any pretensions in the Division that is not frequented by a pair or two of these Eagles, nor a river that cannot boast of their presence. Nevertheless it has, in my opinion, little title to he considered a Fishing Eagle. It seldom, as a rule, attempts...

Again I have 338.- Brachypteryx cruralis, Bly., from the Khasi hills and Shillong, but never met with it in Manipur, nor do I know of its having been found elsewhere in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah, though Ramsay obtained it just outside...

This very pleasingly plumaged Leiothrix is found in the Himalayas from Nepal to Bootan, and also in the hills of Assam. It is common near Darjeeling, from 3,000 to 6,000 feet, being...

They are to be found about their nests from December to March. I have seen fully-fledged young in a nest in the first week in March. The nests are generally placed on Peepul trees, but even the toddy palm tree is sometimes chosen. One nest, which...

The Pale Harrier is only a cold weather visitor, but a very common one. It arrives as early as September and leaves as late as the end of April, though the majority may be said to leave about the end of March...

Bill and claws black; feet black, tinged with brown; irides dark brown. The sixth and seventh primaries have the spot on the inner webs golden yellow. Mr. Hodgson gives a figure of this species in which the yellow spots on the wings are pro-minently shown, but he says:- "Golden drops of alars often wanting."

The Wall-Creeper was found in winter only, in the Nawakot district, the valley of Nepal, and the Markhu Valley, but not in any great numbers. It frequented the rocky sides of streams, and boulders along their course.

Sparingly distributed along the entire coast.

[This bird, though not rare, is yet not common. It is found everywhere along and near the coast in Tenasserim, but never except singly or in pairs, more frequently I think in pairs. I have seen it going up the Rangoon River as well as off Moulmein, and in many places along tile coast. A pair used to frequent the harbour at Mergui, and many a weary hour have I spent in futile attempts to circumvent them.

Early in the morning as the fishing boats came in, accompanied by sundry Sterna bergii, Gelochelidon anglica and sometimes a specimen or two of Xema bruneicephala, these two eagles would swoop down...

Upper mandible brownish black; lower mandible fleshy brown, greyish horny at base; irides light to dark brown, sometimes reddish brown; feet fleshly buff; claws pale brown horny. The sexes hardly differ in colour. The upper surface is tinged with olive; the moustache is darker in the breeding season (being then nearly black) than in winter; the lores are dark brown; and there is a conspicuous ring of white feathers round the eye; the flanks are pale olivaceous streaked with white.

The Yellow-naped Flowerpecker is common, and a permanent resident on the hills round the valley of Nepal; it is also tolerably common in the upper part of the Chitlang Valley in winter. It is found at an elevation of not more that 5,000 feet in winter, but in summer it is only met with at elevations from 7,000 to 8,000 feet; it does not occur in the central part of the Great Valley.

I shot at the beginning of 1872 two specimens of a Pratincola, (probably female, the sex was unfortunately not determined), which appears to be distinct from any other yet known. General plumage, above dull brown, all the feathers margined with pale isabelline or fulvescent whitish, most broadly on scapulars and tertials, narrowly on the quills; upper tail-coverts nearly uniform pale fulvescent or sandy only along the centre of a darker hue. Central tail feathers brown, the succeeding also brown and very pale rufescent fulvous about the basal half of both webs, (not along the shafts), the rufescent colour gradually, not abruptly, passing into the brown; outer web of last tail feather wholly sandy or pale fulvescent white, and all have pale tips which easily wear off. Lores and supercilium sandy white; ears dusky. Lower plumage fulvescent white throughout, with a slight shade of cream colour; all the feathers on their basal halves are dark slaty, which is also the case on the upper plumage. Bill and feet nearly quite black...¹

Referring to my remarks, ante Vol IV., p.15, relative to the separation of the males and females of this species in the cold weather. I may mention that it has since occurred to me that the females may assume the plumage of the males after breeding, which would account for the number of what I imagined to be males found congregated separately in the cold weather. The young birds of the year are all in the same plumage at first, viz., that of the male, as I flushed several broods last rains and verified the fact myself. The sentence "I have shot a large number of females without flushing a male" should be expunged, as I find on reference to my game books that all of the birds alluded to were in the garb of the male. This tends to support the suggestion I have now brought forward, and it remains to be decided whether the gaudy dress of the female Painted Snipe is seasonal or not...

Common in the cold weather on the mud and sedge banks of the tidal creeks and wet paddy fields. At high tide, when the mud flats are covered, these Plovers congregate in largish flocks, and after circling round a few times often fly inland to the dry plains and uplands where they pass their time till the receding tide again leaves their feeding grounds accessible.

Sykes' Warbler is found all through India, frequenting low jungles, groves, hedges, gardens and trees near villages, and also among fields. It is lively and active, hopping about the branches, and capturing various insects, occasionally on the wing but generally on the leaves or branches. It has a rather harsh chuckling note, which it incessantly utters on being approached, and it usually endeavours to hide itself, creeping to the further side of the tree.

It is found throughout the greater part of India, except the more moist and wooded portions. It is unknown on the Malabar Coast, and in Lower Bengal, and does not extend into the Indo-Chinese countries. It prefers the dry open plains, and cultivated land, especially if there are hills near. It is rather rare in the Carnatic, but very abundant in the Deccan, in Central India, and the upper plains of India above Monghyr. Till an hour or two after sunrise it may be seen seated on the top of some tree, and in the very centre, and nearly concealed from view; after which...

Male: Bill black; irides dark brown; feet dark horny brown; claws black.

Female: Bill black; gape fleshy whitish; irides dark brown; feet dingy brownish. This specimen differs from the males in being browner above, with the frontal band narrower; and the colours of the under surface are less intense.

The Orange-gorgeted Flycatcher is not common in the Nepal Valley. I obtained it in March, in the thorny rose-hedges, about the Residency grounds; and towards the end of May it was found on the Sheopuri Ridge, at about 7,000 feet, solitary or in pairs, in thick small-tree forest where the ground was very damp.

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