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My specimens are typical scJiistioeps. I have this species from 

 N. E. Cachar, the Khasi hills, Sadiya and many places in 

 the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin- Austen includes it in 

 his Dafla hill list. It extends to Arakan and the Western 

 portions, at any rate, of Upper Pegu, where also leucogaster 

 occurs. 



[I shot a pair on the 3rd April, 1879, taking the nest, which 

 had four callow young : — 



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

 $ ... 9-40 11-50 40 3-80 PIG 1-35 1 60 oz. 



S ... 9-25 11-20 3 90 3-50 1-12 1-30 1-25 „ 



Bill pale yellow, with the base of the upper mandible dusky ; 

 legs plumbeous ; soles greenish yellow ; claws horny brown ; 

 irides reddish in male, pale yellow in female. They are 

 common in the Dibrugarh district, but, as Mr. Hume has ex- 

 plained, very difficult to bag. The whistling call of the breeding 

 season is heard all round when going through the denser 

 parts of the forests. The nest I got was situated at the roots 

 of a clump of bushes, overhanging a small river. A bridge 

 spanning this river was within ten yards, the intervening space 

 being open ; and for such a shy bird to have chosen such an 

 exposed situation to build in astonished me. — J. R. C] 



Godwin- Austen also gives ^0?>.—Pomator1dnns leucogaster, 

 Gould., from the West Khasi hills, but I have seen no specimen 

 from these parts that is not far nearer schisticeps than leucogaster. 

 I have discussed these two species and nuchalis, which cannot 

 be kept separate from leucogaster, very fully, IX, 251, and need 

 only here add that schisticeps seems to be the damp, leucogaster 

 the somewhat drier climate, form. 



^Q^quat. — Pomatorhinus macclellandi, Jerd. 



I first met with this species at the summit of the Limatol 

 range overlooking the Manipur basin. Then in the basin 

 in many places, especially towards the southern part, though 

 I shot one pair in a hedge in the suburbs of the capital. 

 Then again I found it common on the Eastern hills up to their 

 summits. 



I invariably found it in pairs, never in parties, but as my 

 experience of it only covers February to June, it may later in 

 the year collect in flocks. The male has a fairly loud, rather 

 ringing, chuckling call, which is quite distinct from, though 

 of the same class as that of, others of the group. The female, 

 as in most of the genus I believe, has only a low, single-note, 

 cry which she utters each time the male calls and almost 



