ASSAM, SYLHET AND CACHAR. 195 



Khowang and Joonkotollee in the Dibrugarh district, and this 

 is all I yet know of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 



[During the cold season a few are seen in the Dibrugarh 

 district about the more open parts of the country, but never 

 in dense jungle. — J. R. C] 



I am not aware that this species has been observed in 

 any part of British Burmah. 



498.— Ruticilla hodgsoni, Moore. 



I found this species very abundant in the bed of the Limata 

 on the 13th of February, but I never again noticed it in 

 Manipur. It was frequenting the bare boulders of the wide 

 bed of the, at that season, shrunken stream, and numerous as it 

 seemed it was very shy, and despite all the pains I took in 

 stalking it, I only succeeded in securing three specimens, of 

 which I recorded the following particulars : — 



Legs, feet and bill black ; gape yellow ; soles hoary dusky ; 

 irides brown ; eyelid feathers in the female white, forming 

 a not very conspicuous eye-ring. 



I have never seen this from any part of Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar, but Godwin-Austen appears to have received it twice 

 from the Eastern Naga hills, and includes it in his Dafla hill list. 

 It does not extend, so far as I know, to British Burmah. 



500. — Ruticilla aurorea, Pall. 



I first (in Manipur) met with this in the Jhiri level, then 

 in the valley of the Eerung, and later found it sparsely dis- 

 tributed over the central portion of the valley, shooting it 

 ia the capital itself, and its neighbourhood and Bishnoopoor. 

 It was however a scarce bird, and almost always seen singly. 

 I don't think I saw above a dozen from first to last, and I 

 never met with it in the south of the basin or anywhere 

 in the Eastern hills. 



The following are particulars of three I measured : — 



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



$ ... 6 90 2-5 3-0 0-9 07 056 oz. 



6 9-3 2-4 29 0-92 63 053 „ 



? ... 6-15 9*1 2-4 2-8 0-94 065 0-54 „ 



Legs and feet black ; bill blackish brown to black, yellow 

 or yellowish at gape in the males, and sometimes on base of 

 lower mandible also j irides deep brown. 



