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elsewhere in the Western hills. I also shot one specimen at 

 Airaole, but this was the only one I saw in the Eastern hills, 

 where in April and May it seemed very rare. 



The following are particulars of three specimens : — 



Length Expanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Sill from gape. Weight. 

 $ - 8-7 12-0 3-75 3-9 0-66 0-98 1-2 oz. 



8-7 11-7 3-7 392 0'68 95 1-19 



? .. 8-5 12-0 3-4 3-77 062 91 1-20 " 



Legs and feet dark brown to blackish or dusky leaden ; soles 

 and edges of scales of feet hoary; bill black ; irides brown to 

 reddish brown. 



We have this species from Shillong and the Khasi hills, and 

 from a great many localities in the Dibrugarh district. Godwin- 

 Austen records it from Asalu, and includes it in his Dafla 

 hill list, and this is all I know as yet of its distribution in 

 Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 



[Very common in Dibrugarh, affecting forest and partially 

 open country, occasionally straying into the tea gardens, when 

 the tea bushes are in flower, to feed on the insects that swarm. 

 They go about in small parties, and are by no means shv. — 

 J. H. C] ^ 



Blyth records _ this from Arakan, and it may occur there, but 

 he also records it from Tenasserim, where it does not occur 

 in the north, being represented by H. hildebrandi, nobis, and in 

 the south by ZT. davisoni, nobis. I do not yet know that any one 

 of the three species occurs in Pegu. 



449.— Alcurus striatus, JBly. 



I saw this species, certainly, on the Limatol range of the 

 Western hills, but failed to procure it. I met with it nowhere 

 else in these hills, but found it rather common on all 

 the higher portions of the Eastern hills. The following are 

 particulars of three specimens : — 



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

 $ ... 8-7 120 3-4 3-94 078 O'B 1-6 oz. 



? - 8 9 12-0 3-5 3-92 0-8 08 1-82 „ 



" ••• 8-6 12-4 36 4-02 0-73 82 1-59 „ 



Legs and feet deep to dark prune brown; soles yellowish ; 

 bill blackish to blackish brown ; irides brown. 



I have not procured this species as yet anywhere in 

 Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, but Godwin-Austen obtained it 

 both in the Khasi hills and at the Tomputu peak of the 

 Dafla hills. 



In British Burmah we as yet only know of the occurrence 

 of this species in the higher hills of Northern and Central 

 Tenasserim. 



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