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another undiscriminated species here, one similar to the bird 

 above referred to. 



[ Very common indeed in the well- wooded portions of the 

 Dibrugarh district. When on the feed they keep up a lively 

 twitter, which draws one's attention to them. They go about 

 in parties of five Do twenty. — J. R. C] 



In B. Burmah it is widely distributed in suitable locali- 

 ties, rare in Southern Tenasserim and wanting in many parts 

 of Lower Western Pegu. It is essentially a bird of the 

 forests and well-wooded tracts. 



Godwin-Austen includes 271. — P. speciosus, Lath., in his 

 Dafla hill list, and this is doubtless correct. According to 

 tny Catalogue I have specimens of this species also from 

 the north of the Dibrugarh district, but I cannot get at 

 them now, and it is possible that they were incorrectly 

 identified when catalogued. This species does not extend 

 into British Burmah. 



[172. — Pericrocotus speciosus, Lath. 



This species undoubtedly occurs in the Dibrugarh district, 

 and I compared my specimens with the paper on the genus 

 Pericrocotus in S. F., V, page 171. W. ^ and ?. — 372; 

 3-65 ; 3'85 ; 40 ; 3-80.— J. R. C] 



273. —Pericrocotus brevirostris, Vig, 



I do not remember seeing this iu the Western hills until 

 we reached the Limatol range, overlooking the Mani- 

 pur basin. In this latter I only noticed it in the low hills 

 near Soognoo. In the Eastern hills it is replaced by the 

 next race. I have this from N.-E. Cachar and Shillong, and 

 Godwin-Austen records it from the Khasi hills and in- 

 cludes it in his Dafla hill list, but I have no other record 

 of its occurrence in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet. 



Blyth gives this from Arakan, Ramsay got it in Karenee, 

 and we got one specimen, which may belong to this species 

 (or possibly should be referred to the next race), in the 

 pine forests of the Salween (Tenasserim), but beyond this 

 I do not know of its occurrence in British Burmah. 



273«er — Pericrocotus neglectus, Hume. 



This species or race was very common in the Eastern 

 hills, but I saw it nowhere else. 



