ASSAM, SYLHET AND CACHAR, 



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Even where it does occur it seems always to be a very 

 scarce and strictly nocturnal forest bird, very seldom seen 

 and very hard to procure, yet the Tankuls knew it perfectly, 

 and promised, indeed, to procure specimens but failed. They 

 said there were plenty in the forests, but that it was by 

 mere chance that they came across it, though sometimes they 

 stumbled upon several within a few days, 



I have received it from N.-E. Cachar, and from near Dibrugarh. 



[In July 1879 a villager came across a female sitting on a 

 road leading through heavy forest. It flew up into a tree, and 

 was knocked over by a stick. I kept it alive for four days, 

 during which time, if any one went near, it would make a 

 hissing noise similar to that of the last species. A friend of 

 mine picked up another specimen dead, in some heavy forest. 

 The cause of death was the wingbone of a bat, which it had 

 swallowed, and this in course of time had protruded through 

 the stomach. Unfortunately he neither sexed nor measured it. 

 The female I got had five pale fulvous yellow feathers on the 

 crown, each feather having a small bla,ck spot at the tip. They 

 cannot be rare in the district, but, from their strictly nocturnal 

 habits, are seldom seen. — J. R. C] 



It certainly occurs in Northern Pegu, but we have never 

 seen it from Tenasserim proper, nor has it been recorded 

 from Arakan. 



64.— Syrnium newarense, Hodgs. 



Not uncommonly heard in both the Eastern, Southern and 

 Western hills, but owing to the bad weather and cloudy 

 nights, I only succeeded in bagging one specimen, a,nd that 

 at Machi in the Eastern hills. 



Our three species of this type may be readily separated 



by a glance at their faces. 



Face, i.e., space inside Band from culmen 

 ruff, below and be- 

 hind the eye. 



S. newarense 



8. indrani 



S. mainpayi{S.¥. 

 VI. 27) 



continued ng a broad 

 superciiium over the 

 eje. 



White. 



Mingled brown, yellowish 



brown, or brownish 



white, finely barred 



with a darker brown; 



wing from 14-2 to 17-2. 

 Bright ferruginous buff, White. 



barring obsolete ; wing 



from 11-75 to 13-5. 

 Dull ferruginous, unbarred, Dull ferruginous. 



or nearly so ; wing, in 



two specimens, 14*0 — 15"0. 



