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I heard and saw this species in February, also in the Eerung 

 valley ; but after this I never again saw it anywhere in Mani- 

 pur, nor did I even hear it, and the sawing noise made by its 

 wings in flight is quite sui generis and audible I should say at 

 fully a mile's distance. 



The measurements, &c., of the pair I shot were as follows : — 



Length, Expanse. Tail. Wing, Tarsus, Billfrom gape. Weight, 

 i ... 45-2 65 14-5 20 2-9 9-1 81bs. 



? ... 38-5 54 12 17 2-4 7-0 5lbs. 14ozs. 



Male. — Scales on front of toes and tarsi large and glossy 

 black ; claws black ; soles and sides and back of tarsi hoary, 

 with a few small black scales on the upper part of the latter. 



Bare orbital skin reddish fleshy ; irides orange red ; 

 gular skin intense bright yellow, with a broad transverse 

 black band interrupted just at the middle ; bill pale horny 

 yellowish white, reddish towards the bases of both mandibles, 

 and the first plait of the casque chiefly reddish ; the bare 

 skin on the interior of the wing black. 



Female. — Precisely similar, but the intense yellow of the 

 gular skin in the male replaced by intense blue in the female. 



In both sexes the crest is very large and full, far larger than 

 one would fancy from merely examining dry specimens. 



Noisy as the flight of this species is, it is strong and free 

 and not at all clumsy. 



We have this species from the Khasi hills (whence Godwin- 

 Austen also records it) and from the northern parts of Sylhet, 

 and I found it very common in North Cachar in the cold 

 season, and shot one in the station of Silchar itself, but I have 

 as yet no other record of its occurrence in any other part of 

 Assam, though I know that Dr. Day procured it somewhere 

 in the valley. 



[1466^s. — Rhyticeros undulatus, Shaw. — A solitary male 

 shot in Bhamun Tea Garden by my friend Mr. H, K. Cornish, 

 and measured by him as follows :— -Length, 41-0; expanse, 

 67'0 ; tail, IS'O ; wing, 20-0 ; tarsus, 2-30 ; bill from gape, 

 7-75. Legs and feet blackish, orbital skin pinkish, gular skin 

 bright safiron yellow, with an imperfect dusky band trans- 

 versely. Bill, basal portion tinged red, rest yellowish green, 

 irides orange. There were no signs, it being a young bird, 

 of the plaits peculiar to this species, but at the base of the 

 upper mandible there was a fold of whitish skin, which would 

 have ,been shed in a few days. The tail was pure white. 

 The primary feathers exceeded the longest of the secondaries 

 by 1*90 inches. The sound of the wings made by this species 

 when flying can be heard from a great distance, and they fly 



