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Moreover I got one single specimen high up at Aimole in the 

 Eastern hills, but this was the only one I saw in these latter. 



I have received this from all parts of the valley of Assam, 

 from the Garo hills and from Shillong ; from several places in 

 Sylhet and Cachar (in many parts of both of which I myself 

 observed it) ; and Godwin- Austen notes it from the Harmuti 

 garden below the Dafla hills. 



[Very common in the Dibrugarh district, and one of the 

 earliest cold- weather visitants, remaining from September to 

 April. Found in open country, hedgerows, &c. ; a few used 

 always to keep about my vegetable garden. I have seen them 

 sitting high up on a tree and on a dead branch and twittering 

 away. — J. R. C.] 



It is generally distributed throughout all the provinces of 

 Britf.sh Burmah during the cold season. 



Godwin-Austen gives 324. — Erythrosterna pusilla, Bly., from 

 the Garo hills. It is now generally considered that Blyth's 

 bird was only the female of E. macutata. It is impossible to 

 say what bird Godwin-Austen meant, as he must have been 

 familiar with the female of maculata. 



He also says that he has 325. — Erythrosterna acornaus, 

 Hodgs., from the Jhang valley of Manipur and from Shillong, 

 but acornaus, Hodgs., accordingto Brooks, Sharpe, &c., is only the 

 female of Muscicapula superciliaris, and Godwin-Austen could 

 not mean this, while acornaus, Bly., is said to be the female of 

 E. maculata and to = pusilla. I cannot, therefore, say what 

 either of these birds may really be. 



326. — Erythrosterna maculata, Tick. 



I obtained one immature specimen of this in the Eerung 

 valley, one adult male in that of the Limatak, and this was 

 all I saw of the bird in the Western hills. In the basin I 

 did not see it at all, but high up on the Eastern hills at 

 Aimole and Matchi I found it excessively common, by far the 

 commonest flycatcher. 



A male measured : — Length, 465 ; expanse, 7 3 ; tail, 1'7 ; 

 wing, 232; tarsus, 0*6 ; bill from gape, 052 ; weight, 0-27oz. 



Bill, legs and feet black ; irides brown. 



We have this species from both the Garo and Khnsi 

 hills and from Joonkotollee (Dibrugarh district), and Godwin- 

 Austen records it from the Naga hills. 



[The only specimen Isecured in the Dibrugarh district, a male, 

 was shot in January off a " Jack " {Artocarpus integrifolia) 



