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Bill black ; legs and feet ivory white ; irides brick red,— 

 J. R C] 



Then we have iOQter. — Garrulax gularis, McClell, of which 

 a good descriptiou has been quoted, 111, 4 1 2, but I may give 

 the exact measurements in the flesh of a fine male, viz. : — 

 Length, 10 1 ; expanse, 1212 ; tail, 375 ; wing, 3-65 ; tarsus, 

 1-55; bill from gape, 1 'SB. I have this species from Tenga- 

 pani) from close to Sadiya and from Tippook, all in the eastern 

 part of the Dibrugarh district. Godwin-Austen procured it 

 near Lakhipur in Cachar, where I vainly hunted for it, and 

 at Borpani in the Dekrang Dhun of the Dafla hills, and this is 

 all we know of its occurrence anywhere. Of course I did not 

 meet with it in Manipur. 



409^Ma?.— Garrulax galbanus, G.-AusL 



I never saw this species in the Western hills, nor in the 

 basin, but I found it common in all the low hills that fringe 

 the bases of the Eastern hills, and I also found a very few quite 

 4,000 feet up the Eastern hills below Aimole. 



It was abundant in the low hills east of Soognoo, where I 

 found them perched about in twos and threes on small scrub 

 bushes. In similar hills east of Kokshin Koolel they swarmed, 

 and I even shot several in the hedgerows of this place. I 

 got them also at Phalel, Hierok and Moirang Prem, in fact all 

 along the bases of the Eastern hills. 



They have a rather feeble chirping call, which they very 

 frequently utter, and by which we could always trace them. 

 Sometimes we found them in large but very widely scattered 

 flocks, more often in pairs or small parties not exceeding six. 

 They often associate with Garrulax ruficollis. They feed a 

 great deal on the ground, chiefly on insects, but not, as I found 

 by dissection, disdaining small seeds. They prefer places 

 where there is tall grass intermixed with trees and shrubs. 

 They are very restless, always on the move, and When flushed 

 from the ground fly up into trees, through the branches of which 

 they hop and fly after the manner of Malacocerci. 



As I had previously only a single specimen given me by 

 Godwin-Austen I went in heavily for these birds, and at 

 Kokshin Koolel for several days shot from 12 to 20 

 daily, which will give some idea of how they abounded 

 there. 



