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many successive years collected in these hills, have as yet met 

 with it. It has not been even reported to occur in any other 

 part of British Burmah. 



Lastly, 432. — Malacocercus terricolor, Hodgs., was found in 

 small numbers in the Darrang district, under the Dafla hills, 

 by Godwin-Austen, who remarks that he " never got this bird on 

 the south side of the Brahmaputra or in Cachar," and this is 

 my experience also ; but later he seems to have had a specimen 

 sent him from somewhere near Sadiya, or the East Naga hills. 

 Further information is required. I have seen it from near Tez- 

 pur, but never from any part of Assam south of the Brahma- 

 putra, Sylhet or Cachar, and it does not, so far as I know, 

 extend to any part of British Burmah. 



[The Boodur Alee (the grand trunk road of Upper Assam) 

 between Moran and Sepon Tea Gardens, four miles, runs 

 through a large plain of Borthani or thatching grass, and it 

 was in this that a small party of these birds had taken up their 

 quarters for several years. In no other part of the district of 

 Dibrugarh did I notice them, though there were several suit- 

 able localities. — J. R. C.] 



439.— Chatarrhcea earlii, i?/y. 



I met with a small party of this species in the Jhiri level, 

 in grass near the bed of the river, but I never again met with 

 it in Manipur, though the whole basin teems with just the kind 

 of localities it affects. 



This too seems universally spread throughout the entire 

 plains portion of Assam, Sylhet and Cachar, but I do not think 

 it ascends the hills at all. 



[I procured only one specimen, a male, out of a small party in 

 long grass on the banks of the Desang river. This was in the 

 last week of March, and the testes were over ^ inch in length. 

 I never again saw it. — J. R. C] 



In British Burmah I only know as yet of its occurrence in 

 Pegu, in the northern portions of which, however, the allied 

 C. gularis is far more common. 



There is another species that, judging from the physical charac- 

 teristics of the place, I should certainly have expected to meet 

 with in the Manipur basin, and that is 441. — Chatornis striatus, 

 Jerd. ; but I never saw it there, nor have I any record of its 

 occurrence anywhere in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, save a single 

 notice of G.- Austen's, who seems to have procured it in the Garo 



