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[This species occurs in the Dibrugarh district. I measured 

 only one, a male. Length, 5'90 ; expanse, 9'40 ; tail, 1*43; 

 wing, 3-20 ; tarsus, 0-70 ; bill from gape, 0-92 ; weight, 0-82oz. 

 Bill, base of culmen, gape, and anterior portion of lower 

 mandible plumbeous, rest black ; legs and feet bluish horny ; 

 irides brown. This was shot on the 19th April, and the testes 

 were enlarged ; it is rather rare. — J. R. C] 



It does not extend to British Burmah, but is replaced in Pegu 

 and Northern and Central Tenasserim, at any rate, by S, neg- 

 lecta, Wald. 



252. — Sitta formosa, Bly., was obtained by Godwin-Austen 

 at Asalu, and again on the Tomputee peak at about 5,000 feet 

 in the Dafla hills, but there is no other record of its occur- 

 rence in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet. I did not meet 

 with it in Manipur, and it does not, so far as we know, 

 extend to any part of British Burmah. 



253.— Dendrophila frontalis, Eorsf. 



I first noticed this species in the Limatol range of the West- 

 ern hills ; then at Aimole and below Machi in the Eastern 

 hills ; and, lastly, got a specimen on the 12th of May at Hierock, 

 far down at the bases of these latter. I believe I shot every 

 specimen I saw, viz., four. It is very scarce in Manipur to what 

 I have elsewhere seen it. 



I have it from Shillong and many places in the Dibru- 

 garh district,* and Godwin- Austen includes it in his Dafla 

 hill list, but 1 have no other record as yet of its occurrence 

 in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 



It is common in suitable localities in all the provinces of 

 British Burmah. 



254.— Upupa epops. Zin. 



This species occurs sparingly about the valley. I generally 

 saw one each day I was out, but I do not think I ever saw 

 more than three on any one day. I don't think I saw this 

 species in the hills. Those I shot in the hills are the next 

 species. The Manipur epops have the bills from forehead or 

 frontal bone to tip, straight, 21 to 2-27, and the white 

 penultimate bar to the posterior crest feathers well marked. 



I got this species at Balaganj in Central Sylhet and in 

 several other places in Sylhet and Cachar. I have it from 

 the Khasi hills and many localities in the Dibrugarh 



* [^Dendrophila frontalis is Tery common in the Dibrugarh district in forest 

 and tea gardens. At times they go about in small parties of five and six. — J. R. C] 



