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any normal stage of this bird's plumage can have so completely 

 evaded all of us Indian collectors. To return, the only place 

 out of Manipur whence chocolatina has been recorded is from 

 Shillong, where longioaudata is so common that I have over 50 

 specimens thence. 



332«er,— Turdinulus murina, S, Mull (Blyth, Ibis, 

 1865, 4i7) = Pnoepyga rohertij God.-Aust. & 

 Wald., vide S. R, IX, 115. 



Although I never met with this species Godwin- Austen pro- 

 cured it at Chakha in the Manipur hills^ and it must therefore 

 be included in our list. 



I have never received it from any part of Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar, but Godwin-Austen procured it at Asalu. 



In British Burmah we only know of its occurrence about 

 Mooleyit in Central Tenasserim, but the rest of the higher 

 hills in that range have yet to be explored, and it will proba- 

 bly prove to occur elsewhere, the more so that we have obtained 

 it far down the Malay Peninsula at Klang, and that the type 

 came from Sumatra. 



335.— Rimator malacoptilus, Bly. 



Never met with by me, but procured in the Manipur hills, 

 by Godwin- Austen. There seems to be no record as yet of its 

 occurrence anywhere in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British 

 Burmah. 



336.— Brachypteryx nipalensis, Hodgs. 



I only met with this species in the Eastern Manipur hills, 

 but in these, both near Aimole and Matchi, it was by no 

 means rare, 



I have this from the neighbourhood of Shillong and two 

 «r three other places in the Khasi hills, but there is no record 

 of its occurrence anywhere else in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, 

 and as regards British Burmah, the only place where it is known 

 to occur is at Moole3dt, where we procured several specimens. 



Godwin-Austen procured JSTo. 337. — Brachypteryx hy- 

 perythra, Jerd. and Bly., at Asalu, but it is not known as yet 

 to have occurred elsewhere in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or 

 British Burmah, and I did not observe it in Manipur. 



Again I have 338. — Brachypteryx cruralis, Bly., from the 

 Khasi hills and Shillong, but never met with it in Manipur, 



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