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[I procured two specimens of N. sundara in the Dibrugarh 



district, and saw about a dozen more in half as many years. 



The measurements I made were : — 



Length. Expanse. 

 $ ... 6-60 9-40 

 .? ... 6-40 9-20 



Bill black ; irides deep brown ; legs horny brown in male, 

 deep plumbeous in female ; mouth inside fleshy in male, fleshy 

 yellow in female ; gape fleshy yellow. Food, seeds of some 

 berry, ants, and coleoptera. This species I noticed only on the 

 bushes and shrubs on the sides of roads leading through forest, 

 and wherever the sunlight was thrown on the road through a- 

 gap in the forest trees. — J. R. C] 



315. — Niltava macgrigoriae, Burt. 



This species was quite common in the undergrowth in^ 

 the dense jungle near the Barak, between Kalanaga and 

 Koombiron in the "Western hills, but, strange to say, I 

 never again met with it in any other part of Manipur,.or if 

 I did so I failed to shoot or recognize it. 



The following are particulars of a pair : — 



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

 $ ... 5-3 81 2-1 2-5 0-7 058 0'39 oz, 



.? ... 5^3 7'8 1-9 2-45 0-62 0-57 04 „ 



In both the legs and feet were dusky brownish leadeni- 

 the soles hoary, the bill black, and the irides brown. 



We have this species from Shillong and the Khasi hills 

 and from the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin- Austen included? 

 it in his Dafla hill list, but beyond this I know nothing of its 

 distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[Very common in the Dibrugarh district, where both this^ 

 and the last species are only seasonal visitants. This 

 species frequents the same places as N. sundara, and at 

 times is to be foand in the secondary scrub that grows in the 

 broad strips cut through forest for very wide roads. I hav& 

 found small red berries (hard shelled) in the stomachs of 

 some that I dissected. — J. R. C] 



In British Burmah we only know of it as a rare straggler 

 to Northern Tenasserim, and as having been obtained by 

 Ramsay in Karenee. 



316. — Niltava grandis, Bly. 



I first met with this species on the Limatol range, where 

 it was not rare. Then the Nagas brought in a specimen from 

 the Southern hills, where they snared the Callophasis, and 



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