ASSAM, SYLHET AND CACHAR. 107 



[Common in the Dibrugarh district during the cold weather, 

 where it frequents not only forests, but the trees that stand 

 singly about tea gardens. — J. R. C] 



In British Burmah it is widely distributed during the cold 

 season throughout all the provinces in suitable localities, and I 

 dare say it breeds in the higher T^nasserim hills, as it does in 

 the Eastern Manipur and Khasi hiUs. 



303.--Cyornis unicolor, Bly. 



This is everywhere a rare bird, but it occurs both in the 

 Eastern and Western hills. 



First I shot a female on the 3rd February at Noongzai-ban,. 

 and then I shot a pair on the 19th of April at Aimole, which 

 measured :— 



Length, Expanse. Tail- Wing, Tarsus, Bill from gape. Weight, 

 $ ... 69 9-4 2 9 3-13 073 078 06P oz. 



$ ... 6-7* 10-0 2-7 307 0-7 7* 058 „ 



* Tip of bill damaged — these dimensions are about 01 too little, 



Male. — Legs and feet dull pale purple ; bill black ; irides 

 browner. 



Female. — Legs and feet greyish brown ; upper mandible 

 brown ; lower mandible bluish horny ; irides brown. 



I have never seen this from Assam, but Godwin- Austen got 

 it in the Khasi and E. Naga hills, and also in the Dekrang 

 valley in the Dafla hills. 



As regards British Burmah, the Marquis of Tweeddale made 

 out from a drawing of Tickell's, which Tickell had wrongly 

 labelled as Stoporala melano'ps,^ that this species extended to 

 Akyab in Arakan, and this may be correct, but I have no 

 record of its occurrence anywhere in British Burmah. 



304. — Cyornis rubeculoides, Vig. 



I first obtained this at Soognoo at the south of the basin 

 on low-wooded hills, the last outliers of the Eastern hills, and 

 then I found it plentiful high up on these latter at Aimole, 

 Matchi, &c. • 



When we were in these parts the birds were breeding, and 

 I never saw a female. This was the latter part of April and 

 the first half of May, and though I had no time to seek 

 for nests the females must have been all sitting. 



The Manipur birds are quite of the Indian and not the 



* Note that I have received S, melanosis both from Akyab and other parts 

 of Arakan, 



