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Cachar hills, including the Garo hills and country at their 

 base in the Mymensing and Sylhet districts." / have never 

 seen this yet from any part of Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. Jerdon, 

 however, says that it extends through Dacca ( where I have 

 myself seen it) to Assam. Whether it does so occur it certainly 

 does not extend to Manipur, nor to any part of British Burmah. 



2335ea;^.— Anthreptes singalensis, Gm. 



Only met with in the Jhiri level and to about half way up 

 the Noongzai-ban ridge. Eastwards of this I never saw 

 it in Manipur. 



This species is tolerably common in the north of both Sylhet 

 and Cachar, and I have received it from the Dibrugarh district* 

 and the Khasi hills, and Shelley says that he has seen speci- 

 mens collected by Godwin-Austen from the Garo hills. 



Throughout British Burmah it is generally distributed in 

 suitable localities, avoiding as a rule, however, dry country like 

 the major portion of Upper Pegu. 



Godwin-Austen obtained 234. — Ginnyris asiatica, Lath., 

 at Teria Ghat in Northern Sylhet and at Bologunj (? Bholagunj), 

 also, if my surmise is correct, in the same locality. I have heard 

 moreover of its being found far up in the valley of Assam, but 

 I do not think that I have ever seen a specimen from any 

 part of Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, and I met with it this time 

 in neither of these two latter districts, nor in Manipur. It 

 is found, though by no means very abundantly, throughout 

 British Burmah, not extending however, we believe, south of 

 the river Ye in Tenasserim. 



236. — Dicaeum cruentatum, Lin. 



I found this both in the Jhiri and Eerung valleys, but met 

 with it nowhere else in Manipur. This species appears to be 

 found in suitable localities throughout the Assam valley ,-f- in the 

 Garo and Khasi hills and in Northern Sylhet and Cachar, and 

 it seems equally widely distributed in all the provinces of 

 British Burmah. 



* {^A, singalensis is not common in the Dibrugarh district. A male measured : — 

 Length, 4-40; expanse, 6-10; tail, 1-80; wing, 2-15 ; tarsus, 0-65; bill 

 from gape, 070 ; weight, O'35oz. Feet olive green, legs dusky green.— J. R. C'.] 



t [This tiny species is very common in the Dibrugarh district in forests and 

 cultivation, and common in tea gardens when they are in blossom. On the 24tii 

 May, 1881, 1 found a nest with three hard set eggs. The nest was in a guava 

 tree growing in a ryot's compound, and was suspended from a twig about as 

 thick as a pencil and five feet off the ground. In shape it was like an egg, the blunt 

 end hanging downwards and measured 2^ inches long by 2 inches broad, with 

 the entrance at the upper side, and was composed of very fine black threads, 

 evidently spider's webs, and lined with the cotton of the pod of " Semul ' ' 

 {Bombax, sp.).--J. K. C] 



