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dirty yellow on the middle of both mandibles ; irides chocolate 

 brown ; gape and eyelids dull vermilion ; legs and feet 

 greenish brown. I never saw any others, although constantly 

 on the look-out. They were shot off middling sized trees 

 that stood amongst the tea, where they kept hopping about 

 the branches without uttering a sound. — J. R C] 



I have not as yet received this species from any other locality 

 in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet. In Tenasserim we have obtained 

 a few specimens, and it has occurred in several localities in 

 Pegu and in Karenee, but I do not know of its occurrence in 

 Arakan. 



Again I have what I used to identify as 211ter. — Chryso- 

 coccyx malyanus, Raffles {vide S. F., VI, 603), from the 

 Dibrugarh district. 



It has, however, to be noticed that we know as yet so little 

 of these rare birds that I am by no means sure now that 

 malayanus, Raffles, may not prove to be one stage only of 

 xanthorhynchus. (See also Mr. Gates' remarks and my note 

 X, p. 195). 



212. — Coccystes jacobinus, JBodd. 



This is a rare bird in Manipur. I saw it perhaps five or six 

 times in the basin and shot two, but I never observed it in 

 any part of the hills. 



I have it from N.-E. Cachar and also from Shillong, and 

 Godwin-Austen says it was common at the latter place in June. 



I have no record of its occurrence in the valley of Assam. 



In quite the north of Pegu this species is common, but we 

 have never obtained it in any part of Tenasserim, nor have I 

 seen it from Arakan. 



Godwin-Austen records 213. — Coccystes coromandus, Lin., 

 from the Garo hills, and I have it from Sadiya in the Dibrugarh 

 District,* but I have no other record of its occurrence in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar, and I never saw or heard of it (and the bird 

 is one the Nagas would notice) in any part of Manipur. This 

 is the more surprising because it occurs in Hill Tipperah and 



* ICocet/stes coromandus is even in the Dibrugarh district apparently rare, 

 but owing to its frequenting thick tangled brnshwood and forest perhaps it is 

 really more plentiful than it appears. 1 got two specimens and saw several 



more. 



Length. Expanse. Tail. Win(f. Taring. Bill from gape. Weight. 

 g ... 15-50 17-70 9'40 6-05 r05 1-32 2 90ozg. 



^ ... 15-50 17*75 9-55 6-20 105 1-35 2-70ozs. 



Legs and feet plumbeous, mouth inside orange, soles olive yellow ; clawa 

 plumbeous, irides brown, eyelids brown, gape orange ; bill, in fully fledged 

 young dusky above, dusky yellow below, dusky but plumbeous at base below in 

 adult.— J. R. C] 



