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Masuri, extending into Assam and Cacliar^ and ranging 

 south into British Burmah as far as the central portion of 

 the province of Tenasserim, but not occurring so far south 

 as Meetan. In writing upon this species. Dr. Jerdon re- 

 marks : — " Found throughout the Himalayahs extending 

 from Assam to Burma. At Darjeeling I observed it chiefly 

 in the zone from 2000 to 6000 feet.'-' The most western 

 locality to be found in Hume's series is Masuri ; but he 

 also has other specimens from the neighbourhood of Nynee 

 Tal and Almora, Colonel Irby procured it on one of the 

 lower hills between Nynee Tal and Kaleedonghee in 

 Kumaon, and in the British Museum are several specimens 

 from Nepal, collected by Mr. Hodgson. A large series 

 from Sikkim, collected by the late Mr. Mandelli, is in 

 the Hume Collection, and shows the species to be resident, 

 as the specimens have been obtained in almost every month 

 of the year ; and according to Capt. Bulger it is seemingly 

 common in the forests of that country, which extend 

 downwards towards the Little Kungeet river. Mr. Inglis 

 states that in North-eastern Cachar this • Woodpecker is 

 not uncommon, and that it remains all the year. He only 

 met with it in dense jungles. McClelland obtained it in 

 Assam. To the south, Mr. Blyth says it is not uncommon 

 in Arracan j and Mr. Gates remarks that it is found com- 

 monly all over the Pegu Hills, but he did not meet with it in 

 the plains. In Tenasserim^ Messrs. Hume and Da\dson state 

 that it is confined to the low hills and their neighbourhood, 

 in the northern and central portions of the province, and the 

 latter gentleman observes that it does not appear to get as 

 far south as Meetan. Capt. Bingham says that it is fairly 

 common in the Thounghyeen valley. 



2. Chrysophlegma mystacale. 



Chrysophlegma mystacalis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. 

 xiv. p. 182 (1879) ; Wardlaw Ramsay, P. Z. S. 1880, p. 16; 

 Nicholson, Ibis, 1883, p. 242. 



Adult male. Entire back, scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts yellowish olive, slightly golden ; 



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