A subcaste of Gowari.
_Birchheya_ .-- (A dweller in the forest.) Subcaste of Ghosi.
_Birchkia_ .-- (From _birchka_, a tree.) A subcaste of Ghosi.
_Birhor._--A small Kolarian tribe of whom about 150 persons were returned in 1911 from the Chota Nagpur States.

The name means a dweller in the forest.

Sir H.Risley states that the Birhors live in tiny huts made of branches of trees and leaves, and eke out a miserable living by snaring hares and monkeys, and collecting jungle products, especially the bark of the _chob_ creeper, [430] from which a coarse kind of rope is made.

They are great adepts at ensnaring monkeys and other small animals, and sell them alive or eat them.

Colonel Dalton described them as, [431] "A small, dirty, miserable-looking race, who have the credit of devouring their parents, and when I taxed them with it they did not deny that such a custom had once obtained among them.