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deep maroon chestnut, and median and lesser ones more or 

 less of this and the yellow mingled ; wing-lining grey, some of 

 the feathers more or less tipped with orange. 



I ought not to omit that Godwin- Austen procured, as might 

 have been expected, 416.— T. chTysopterum,Gonld.,the Eastern 

 Himalayan form, on the Shengorh peak of the Dafla hills, but 

 this IS not known as yet to occur elsewhere in Assam, Sylhet 

 or Cachar, and does not of course extend to ' British 

 Eurmah. 



Besides this we have in Assam 4l7bis.~Trockalopterum 

 austem, Jerd., which has only been procured on the Hengdon 

 peak at the head of the Jhiri river and on the Kopamedza 

 peak, m both cases at an elevation of about 7,000 feet. 

 it IS not known to occur anywhere else in Assam, Sylhet, 

 Oachar or British Burmah, and as I failed to secure 

 specimens I do not enter it in this list, though I certainly 

 SAW it above Aimole. It was in a narrow path between high 

 grass mingled with shrubs and herbaceous plants, which 

 stood hke a wall on either side, and three of these birds suc- 

 cessively darted across the pathway about a foot from the 

 ground, and not a yard ahead of me. I am myself quite 

 certain of the bird ; it was in bright morning light, but of course 

 ^^"^1? J °^^^ ^ representative species. Of course I followed 

 the birds, though it was awful scrub and awful ground, but 

 during an hour's hunt I never obtained a glimpse of it, nor 



: n^^ '-^^^^ ^^*^ ^* ^g^^^- So far as I know, 

 except (jodwin-Austen, no one has ever procured it any 

 where. ^ 



418«er.— Trochalopterum cineraceum, G.-Aust. 



■ ^S'^^l "^®* ^^*^ *^^^ ^'^ °^® P'^^® ^'^^ t^a* was near Aimole 

 in the Eastern hills, where it was not very rare, though, like- 

 most of these birds, rather difficult to see and shoot. When I 

 lound them at the end of April they were always in pairs. 

 1 never saw more than two together anywhere. They have 

 a low, rather musical, call or set of calls, for two or three times 

 when from the call I thought I had a new species, it turned 

 out to be this one. They keep in the densest brushwood as 

 a rule, feeding, however, a great deal on the ground, so that 

 by lying flat down and waiting one can generally catch a glimpse 

 of and shoot them. I found lots of small soft fruits as well 

 as insects m their, stomachs. 



