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from Arakan or Pegu. Blyth notes it from the Tenasserim hills, 

 and Bingham got a specimen at the Daylaw Choung, but in four 

 years' collecting neither Davison nor Darling ever saw it, so it 

 must be rare. In the Karen hills, however, Ramsay obtained 

 a specimen. 



187. — Sasia ochracea, Hodgs. 



I procured specimens of this in both the Eastern and 

 Western hills, but did not see it in the basin. The male is 

 distinguished by its bright yellow forehead, that of the female 

 being much the colour of the breast. 



A female shot at Machi measured : — 



Length, 3-6 ; expanse, 7"1 ; tail, 1-0 ; wing, 2*2 ; tarsus, O'S ; bill 

 from gape, 0*6 ; weight, 0'37oz. 



The legs and feet are light reddish fleshy ; soles pale yellow 

 upper mandible and tip of lower mandible blackish, rest of 

 lower mandible and gape pale leaden blue ; irides red. 



These were decidedly rarer than the preceding species, but 

 like this is very fond of bamboos and low thick undergrowth, 

 so, though I only saw it six or seven times, it may not be so rare 

 as this would indicate. 



This species also I have from N.-E. Cachar and many 

 places in the Dibrugarh district,* but from nowhere else, but 

 God win- Austen gives it from near Nenglo in the Asalu hills 

 and from the Dafla hills ; and I dare say it is generally, though 

 sparingly, distributed — as it is in Arakan, Northern and Central 

 Pegu and Tenasserim — in suitab[e localities. 



188. — lynx torquilla, Lin. 



This species was generally, though sparsely, distributed 

 throughout the basin of Manipiir, but I never met with it 

 in either the Eastern or Western hills. As a rule, in the 

 basin, I found it sneaking about the hedge rows of the capital 

 and the various villages ; once or twice in scrub well away 

 from these ; never in thick jungle or forest. 



I have found this species in Northern Sylhet and Cachar 

 and have it from the Garo and Khasi hills, but not as yet from 

 either the Naga hills or any part of the valley of Assam. 



* [^Sasia ochracea is I think rare in Dibrugarh, The only specimen I secured 

 was shot in long null grass on the banks of jthe " Desang " river. It was 

 searching about the stems of the " null," a little way off the ground. Iridea 

 crimson, whereas Jerdon says they are pale brown. Possibly this is of the young 

 birds. My specimen measured: — Length, 3o2 ; expanse, 610; tail, 90; 

 wing, 210; tarsus, 0-52; bill from gape, 0'54; weight, 0'35oz. Subsequently 

 I saw other specimens in tangled brushwood and forest, but failed to bng 

 any. — J. R. C] 



