ASSAM, SYLHET AND CACHAR. Ill 



anywhere as yet in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah. 

 Could his specimen have been poliogenys ? 



308. — Cyornis magnirostris, Bly. 



Of this species I procured a single specimen, a female, in 

 the Jhiri valley. I never again met with it in Manipur. 

 It was shot by one of my men, who said it was one of a pair, 

 both of which he shot, but failed to find the male in the 

 dense undergrowth. 



I have several specimens of this from N.-E. Cachar, and 

 Godwin- Austen obtained a male at Asalu, but beyond this there 

 seems to be as yet no record of its occurrence in Assam, 

 Cachar or Sylhet. 



In British Burmah I only know of its occurrence in 

 Southern Tenasserim. 



309&is.— Cyornis vividus, Swinh. 



Only in the highest- wooded hill above Aimole in the Eastern 

 hills did I meet with this fine species. They were here, 

 even, very scarce. I only saw two pairs, of which I shot with 

 great difficulty two males and one female. They were hunting 

 about in dense brushwood, only now and then showing distinct- 

 ly for a second at a time. Dissection showed that they were 

 just about to breed, also that they had fed chiefly on tiny 

 black beetles. 



I measured all I shot, with the following results : — 



LetigtJi. Expanse^ Tail, Wing. 



$ ... 80 11-65 3*3 4-05 



^ ... 77 11-5 3-3 3-9 



? ... 7-6 11-6 3-25 375 



The legs and feet and claws were dark to blackish brown ; 

 the soles yellowish ; bill black ; irides deep brown to reddish 

 chocolate. 



I have no other record of the occurrence of this species in 

 Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, but the so-called female Niltava 

 shot by Godwin-Austen in January 1873 under the peak of 

 Japvo, Naga hills, was, I should say, certainly a female of this 

 species. 



In British Burmah again I only know of its occurrence in 

 Central Tenasserim, where on Mooleyit we procured some nine 

 specimens. 



Godwin-Austen records 310. — Muscicapula superciliaris, 

 Jerd., from the Naga hills, but I have no other record of its 

 occurrence in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah, and, as 



