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plumage sexed, both male and female. Can it be that the 

 first type indicates young of both sexes and the second adults 

 of both ? The point wants clearing up. All I can say positively 

 is, that all my five specimens killed from 2nd of February to 

 2nd of May are all precisely alike, all in the stage of plumage 

 first described, and all males. 



As to the occurrence of this species in Assam, all I know 

 is that I have it from JoonkotoUee (Dibrugarh district), and 

 that Godwin- Austen obtained it in the Khasi hills. 



[During my stay in Dibrugarh I secured only four specimens, 



Legs and feet purplish brown in the first two, olive green in 

 female; bill above dusky, below and gape vermilion, tip dusky ; 

 base below in female yellow ; irides brown. They were shot in 

 dense forest, while hopping about the ground among some dead 

 leaves. — J. R. C] 



It does not extend, s© far as I know, to British Burmah. 



Godwin- Austen also records3 27. — Tesia castaneocoronata, 

 Burt., from the Hengdon Peak at 7,000 feet, and I have it 

 from Shillong, but these are the only records of its occurrence 

 in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah. 



Besides this there are three Pnoepygas that occur in Assam 

 none of which I met with in Manipur, though they may prove 

 to occur there, viz., 329. — Pnoepyga squamata, Gould., which I 

 have from near Shillong, and which Godwin-Austen records 

 from the Hengdon Peak, and which Eamsay obtained in 

 Karenee, but of the distribution of which in Assam, Sylhet, 

 Cachar or British Burmah nothing further seems to be known. 



[I have a record of only one specimen from Dibrugarh : — 



Female. — Length, 3"50 ; expanse, 5'50 ; wing, 2"0 ; tarsus, 

 0*75 ; bill from gape, 0'65 ; weight, OSOoz. 



Bill above dusky, below pale fleshy, tipped dusky ; gape 

 dusky ; legs and feet dirty white. It was shot in a damp shady 

 spot in heavy forest, while hopping about among the fallen 

 leaves and twigs, and had eaten only insects. — J. R. C] 



Next 330, — Pnoepyga pusiUa, Hodgs., which I have from 

 Shillong, and which Godwin-Austen also got in several parts 

 of the Khasi hills, but of the occurrence of which elsewhere in 



