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If however inglisi and 'albicollis prove identical, then we > 

 know of it from the Garo, Khasi and Naga hills, Sadiya in 

 the Dibrugarh district, and the Dafla hills. 



If hypoteuciis is identical, then we must add Arakan to 

 the list. In Central Tenasserim it is replaced by 0. tickelli, 

 nobis. I see that it is affected to assign this name to Blyth, 

 who most certainly never published it. It may be assigned 

 to Snooks for all I care, but as a matter of fact / gave the 

 name and was the first to publish a description of the bird 

 with a distinct specific name. 



I don't believe this species occurs either in Nepal or 

 Sikhim. Mandelli, the best local collector we^ have ever had 

 in India, never got it in nearly ten years' collecting in Sikhim ; 

 and if it don't occur there it certainly does not occur further 

 west in Nepal. 



406.— Xiphoramphus superciliaris, Bly. 



I never met with this species in Manipur, but Godwin- 

 Austen records it from the Konchungbum peak of the Mani- 

 pur hills, and it is therefore entitled to a place in our list. 



I am not aware that it has ever been recorded from any 

 part of Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burrnah. 



407.— Garrulax leucolophus, Hardiv. 



This species occurs in both the Eastern and Western Manipur 

 hills (not in the basin) , but is much rarer there than in most 

 parts of the lower Himalayas. I only actually shot it, near 

 Koombiron in the Western, and half way up to Tankool 

 Hoondoong in the Eastern hills, and I only heard or saw it 

 about half a dozen times from first to last. 



We have this species from the Khasi hills and several 

 places in the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin- Austen gives 

 it from the Dafla hills, but this is all 1 know as yet of its 

 distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[Very common in all suitable localities in the Dibrugarh 

 district, where the Assamese call it Naga dhoopooleka. 

 Their loud and sudden burst of chorus, when heard close by, is 

 startling, and causes many a pony to shy. — J. R. C] 



It extends to Arakan, but in Pegu and Tenasserim is replaced 

 by the allied G. belangeri. 



Then in Assam we have 408A. — Garrulax subcoerulatus, 

 nobis, from Shillong, which Godwin-Austen found common in 

 the Naga hills, but which I failed to find in Manipur, and 



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