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362.--Merula albocincta, Royle. 



I never met with this species anywhere in Manipur, but 

 Godwin -Austen records it from Remta in the Manipur hills, 

 and it must, therefore, be included in our list. 



There is no record as yet, I believe, of its occurrence any- 

 where in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah. 



Godwin-Austen also got ^Q^.~Merula castanea, Gould., in 

 the Tura range of the Garo hills, but I never met with it in 

 Manipur, nor is there any other record of its occurrence in 

 Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah. 



364.— Turdus ruficoUis, Pall 



I never saw this species in either the Eastern or Western hills, 

 but I frequently saw it in the Manipur basin and shot several. ' 



The following are exact particulars of those measured : 



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

 3 ad. lO-l 160 3-9 5-4 1'3 M 2 58 ozs. 



„ „ 10-5 16-5 425 5-5 1-35 M 272 



? ad. 102 160 4-5 52 1-25 1-15 3-17 " 



n „ 101 153 40 6-.35 1-27 113 2-75 " 



., ,. 98 15-5 423 5-56 125 111 2-46 „ 



For remarks on the variations of plumage in this species 

 wc^e S. F., IX, gl8, 7t. ^ & i^ 



Wherever I met this Thrush it was solitary and not in 

 parties, as one usually finds atrogularis — always in the level 

 country feeding in open ground", and in Sylhet and Cachar, 

 always where heaps of manure had been thrown down in the 

 fields, about which heaps it was busily foraging. 



I have this species from Sadiya and many other places in 

 the Dibrugarh district, and from Goalpara, and I shot it near 

 Karimgunj in Sylhet, and again further up in the Cachar district. 



Godwin- Austen also got it in the Khasi hills, whence I have 

 not seen it, nor indeed does my slight knowledge of it lead 

 me to believe that it normally affects hills at all. 



[Pretty common in the Dibrugarh district during the cold 

 season. My experience of their habits tallies with that of 

 Mr. Hume's.— J. R. C] 



I do not yet know its having occurred in any part of 

 British Burmah, though I should expect to hear of it in the 

 plains of Pegu. 



365.— Turdus atrogularis, Tern. 



Only twice met with in the Western, never seen in the 

 Eastern hills, or even in the basin, 



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