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he got only a single immature bird, I think we must retain 

 this as doubtful. It might possibly have been a young female, 

 Erythrosterna maculata, 



311.— Muscicapula astigma, Eodgs, 



On the Limatol range I procured a single immature female 

 that I thus assign, but the immature females of this species 

 and superciliaris run so close that it is difficult to separate 

 them. All we have to separate them in certain stages is the 

 somewhat coarser bill and the darker tint of the upper 

 surface in the present species. I never met with it again 

 anywhere in Manipur. 



At Shillong it must be very common, for every one who has 

 collected for me in that neighbourhood has sent me numer- 

 ous specimens, and Godwiu-Austen, too, got numbers there, 

 but I have no knowledge of its occurrence anywhere else 

 in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah. 



Godwin-Austen obtained 312. — Muscicapula sapphira, 

 Tick., at the Shoton Dorengo Peak of the Garo range, and I 

 have it from Shillong, but I did not meet with it in Maoipur, 

 nor have I any further knowledge of its occurrence anywhere 

 else in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, nor does it, so far as we know, 

 extend to British Burmah. 



Another species, 313. — Nitidula hodgsoni, Moore, was ob- 

 tained by Godwin- Austen from the Naga hills and by myself 

 from JoonkotoUee in the Dibrugarh district ; but there appears 

 to be no other record of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar, and this too was not met with or at least procured in 

 Manipur, though at the time I believed I saw it on the Limatol 

 range. It does not extend, that we know, to British 

 Burmah. 



Still another species, 314. — Niltava sundara, Hodgs., which 

 I have both from Shillong and JoonkotoUee, and which Godwin- 

 Austen found to be rather common about Asalu, escaped 

 my notice in Manipur. I have no further knowledge of its 

 occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, or indeed in British 

 ' Burmah, though Blyth says it occurs in Tenasserim (I believe 

 the bird he saw must have been Cyornis vividus), and Ramsay 

 is recorded to have obtained it in Karenee. 



