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Blyth records it from Arakau. Once for all I may remark 

 that this is a very long province, including two very disticct 

 faunas. That Blyth may have received it from some place 

 in the Arakan hills, I do not doubt, but that it is at all 

 generally diffused in Arakan I entirely disbelieve. I do not 

 know of its occurrence in Pegu,* and in Tenasserim, so far 

 as we know, it only occurs in the extreme north, viz., in the 

 Tonghoo and Karen hills. Ramsay procured it, I may add, 

 in Karenee. 



475.— Copsychus saularis, Lin. 



This species is common in the Manipur basin, but I do no* 

 remember, nor have I noted ever having seen it either in 

 the Eastern or Western hills. 



The Manipur specimens are mostly very typical, almost the 

 whole of the four outer tail-feathers white (a character, how- 

 ever, of little value), no dark centerings to the under wing- 

 coverts, and the females, pale like Indian ones on breasts 

 and backs. 



This species is widely distributed in all suitable localities 

 (of course it don't live in treeless grassy swamps) throughout 

 Sylhet, Cachar and the Assam valley right up to and a little 

 beyond Sadij^a, and Godwin-Austen gives it from the Khasi 

 hills, and I have it from Shillong. About the Garo and 

 Naga hills I do not know. 



[Common in Dibrugarh and Sibsagar, where it is oftener 

 found in the more open country than in dense forests.— J. R. C.] 



It is widely and generally diffused throughout British 

 Burmah, but towards the extreme south of Tenasserim begins 

 to merge into 0. musicus, Rafl. 



476.— Oercotrichas macrura, Gm. 



I saw this in the Jhiri level, but did not shoot it there, 

 there were so many birds to attend to ; further on I found 

 it common between Kalanaga and Koombiron, but beyond 

 the latter I never saw it anywhere in Manipur territory. 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar and Joonkotollee in Dibru- 

 garh, and_ Godwin- Austen records it from the Khasi hills, 

 but this is all I as yet know of its distribution in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. 



[Fairly common in Dibrugarh in dense forest and bamboo 

 jungle, where their peculiar grating note, which is always 



* All specimens said to be from Toni^hoo have beeu, I believe, obtained 

 east of the Sittang, viz., Northern Tenasserim. 



