ASSAM, SYLHET AND CACilAR. I37 



386— Pyctoris longirostris, Hodgs. 



v^^^ZTitl '• ^T'''''^^^ ^^^^d^r^t ia the Manipur basin, 

 wherever there is long grass, and especially so where that 



wKToL^^'"'-r*K; ^'^^^^ -ot ascend the hills an;! 

 ^hZ K^V'^^'tf^^^ "^'^f ^°^- ^^°"* the ditches, with 

 ^^Jit^! ^^^^^'""^^^ common, but 



perhaps it is most numerous about the Logtak lake Except 



grass, show themselves but little, and are not easy to aet 

 "ni rap-rv and ?/ ^^-",^^-f ^densest grass with Ltonrst 

 spfrk of mi' Wf • fi!'' "^'u^^'^^u '' ^'"^t. If they have a 

 esclie aidft """ T 7^^^ «^t' ^^^^J are almost sure to 

 escape, and the proverbial needle in a haystack could not h^. 



but I fear that m getting these I must have shot at least an 

 equal number which I failed to recover 



birdrhnfr *^'^ ^''P ^^ good-sized parties of six to ten 

 birds, but again you may meet pairs or single birds far 

 away from any of their species. ^ 



There are no accurate flesh measurements &c of these 

 Ing SuUs :- "'' " ' "^^^^^^^ ^ ^^^^ --^ with the fot:! 



. ./X ^^' "^ ^IT ^r ^^^^/^-.^^. ^^.^^. 



" - t'i '-' 4-5 30 }.25 lo! \Z " 



). ... 9 6 9 6 4-9 ^ ifi i.Q "* '3.^ „ 



•' - 9 7 9-5 4-7 si .?7 ^•'^^ 1-21 -. 



? - 9-0 9 3 4-2 2 8 -5 n'ol '•'' " 



" - 90 9-0 43 2-qi i- f ^^^ '■3^ .. 



" - 7^ r -^ "1 i-;^ z 111 •• 



tarsi , the bil is black, but commonly the lower ridses of the 

 Fn™ tSr 71 ""'"'i !!'^ "i!^'^ "'^"^ - blu'h white 



te£r KEff r '-^-^^^^^^^^ 



not of Specific value, for he an J there a'iT'' ^T'?'' ^' 

 found that precisely match Z birds frZ thtZrl '"^ ''" 



..ear stZa audTif-'T.^-^- '^^"'^*'- Gauhatti and 

 oaaiya, and Godwin-Austen records it from Helem 



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