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trees make ; when pressed by the wind they slowly grate against 

 each other, and yet it seemed, somehow, not exactly that 

 familiar sound so common in forests when there is any wind. 

 So I followed it up carefully and at last traced it to a male 

 of this species, which, after watching it emitting the sound 

 for half a minute or so, I shot. 



I have no record of this species having been obtained any- 

 where in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet, hills or plains. Neither 

 do I think it occurs in Pegu or Arakan, but it is found in the 

 hill forests of the central and northern portions of Tenasserim 

 proper and has also been obtained in the Karen hills. 



161.— Hypopicus hyperythrus, Vig. 



I first saw this species at an elevation of about 5,000 feet 

 on the Limatol range (the easternmost of the Western 

 hills), which overlooks the basin, but I failed to shoot it. 

 I then never saw it again till we reached the Eastern hills, 

 and there I shot one high up in the hills above Kokshin 

 Koonoo, at an elevation of, say, 4,000 feet, and later I shot a 

 second at Tankul Hoondoong at about 5,000 feet. These three 

 were the only specimens I saw in Manipur from first to last. 



Godwin-Austen got a specimen in the Naga hills, but I 

 have never obtained a specimen from, nor have I any record 

 of its occurrence in, any other locality in Assam, Cachar or 

 Sylhet. It is of course essentially a Hill species. 



I do not think this species has as yet been noted from any 

 part of British Burmah. 



162.— lyngipicus semi-coronatus, Malh. {=T.rubrica' 

 tus, Bly.) 



We only saw this once and that was on the summit of the 

 Limatol range, the easternmost of the Western hills. In 

 the Eastern hills we never saw it at all. 



This species occurs both in the Khasi and Naga hills, and 

 seems, indeed, to be quite common about Shillong. It may 

 occur in the Garo hills, and certainly does in the Himalayas 

 bounding the Assam valley to the north, but it does not 

 descend into the valley itself or Sylhet or Cachar, being a hill 

 bird rarely, if ever, I believe seen below an elevation of 3,500 

 feet. 



It has never yet been recorded from any part of British 

 Burmah. 



Godwin-Austen'records 163. — /. pygmceus, Vig., from the 

 Khasi hills, but I have never seen it thence nor from 

 any part of Assam, Sylhet, Cachar, or British Burmah, and 



