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I have this from several places in the Dibrugarh district, 

 from between Gauhatti and Shillong, and several places in the 

 Khasi hills, but beyond this I know nothing of its distribution 

 in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[Common in the Dibrugarh district, where it is oftener 

 heard than seen, for, notwithstanding the bright colour, they 

 are not easily distinguished amongst the leaves overhead. — 

 J. R. C] 



This species also is generally distributed in suitable localities 

 throughout British Burmah, and has been procured in 

 Karenee. 



466.— Phyllornis hardwickii, Jard. 8r Selb. 



This species was common in the Barak and Eerung valleys, 

 and I shot one high up on the Limatol range, but I never 

 met with it in the basin or anywhere in the Eastern hills. 

 I did not see this in the Jhiri level, where chlorocephalus was 

 so abundant, and I think it generally affects a higher eleva- 

 tion than this, — indeed I got it on the Limatol range above 

 5,000 feet. 



A very fine adult male measured : — Length, 7"8 ; expanse, 

 . ll-_2 ; tail, 29 ; wing, S'Gl ; tarsus, 0-65 ; bill from gape, 92 ; 

 weight, l'16oz. The legs and feet were dull leaden ; claws 

 dusky ; soles hoary ; bill black ; irides brown. 



I have this from Sadiya and many localities in the Dibru- 

 garh district, and Godwin- Austen records it from the Khasi 

 hills and includes it in his Dafla hill list. Beyond this I 

 seem to have no note of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar. 



[This species frequents heavy forest, and is by no means so 

 common in Dibrugarh as the last species : — 



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

 $ ... 7-85 10-75 2 95 3-85 65 0-96 1-40 oz. 



? ... 7-15 10-30 255 3-33 0-60 0*93 096 „ 



Bill black ; legs and feet plumbeous : irides brown. — 

 J. K C] 



Blyth records this from Arakan, I seem to have no note 

 of its occurrence in Pegu, but we have procured it in the 

 higher hills of Central and Northern Tenasserim. 



468.— lora tiphia, Lin. 



I saw this nowhere in Manipur, until we debouched into 

 the basin, where it is generally distributed ; more common about 

 the capital than elsewhere, but even there by no means 



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