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It is widely, but on the whole sparingly, distributed through- 

 out the provinces of British Burmah, though not extending, so 

 far as we know, to the southernmost portions of Tenasseriui. 



287.— Artamus fuscus, Vieill 



This was pretty common about Soognoo and Kokshin Koonoo 

 at the southern end of the Manipur basin, but I did not 

 notice it elsewhere in Manipur. 



I found it common about Kareemgunge in Sylhet and many 

 places in Cachar, between this town and the Manipur boundary, 

 especially in the low hills east of Lakhipur, where I saw hun- 

 dreds as usual sitting in rows on the bare branches of high 

 trees or circling round in short rapid flights. I have it from 

 N.-E. Cachar, from Shillong, Sadiya and half a dozen other 

 places in the Dibrugarh, and Godwin- Austen records it from 

 Asalu, and this is all I know of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet 

 and Cachar. 



[Not common in the Dibrugarh district, where it is occasion- 

 ally seen in open and thinly-wooded country. As it was observed 

 only in the cold season I conclude it is a seasonal visitant 

 only.— J. R. C] 



In Pegu, though somewhat irregularly distributed, it is com- 

 mon both in the north and to the south ; Blyth records it from 

 Arakan, whence I have not seen it, and it is a rare straggler to 

 Tenasserim, where, in the course of four years' collecting, we 

 never saw it, but where Armstrong obtained specimens at 

 Amherst and Ramsay at Toughoo (properly a part of Pegu) 

 and the Karen hills. 



289.— Muscipeta affinis, Bay. 



I only obtained, or indeed saw, one single specimen of the 

 Eastern Paradise Flycatcher in Manipur, and that was a 

 male m chestnut plumage, with the central tail-feathers about 

 four mches longer than the rest, that I shot at Aimole in the 

 Eastern hills on the 29th of April. 



We have this species from N.-E. Cachar, from Sadiya and 

 some five other localities in the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin- 

 Austen got one at Samagutung in the Naga hills, and includes 

 it mhis Dafla hill list, and this is all I know for certain 

 as to its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 



[Very common in both the Dibrugarh and Sibsagar dis- 

 tricts, but only in the well-wooded portions, where their grat- 

 ing note is continually heard in the summer. They are 

 permanent residents, and in May the generative organs show 

 signs of breeding. — J. R. C. J 



