ASSAM, SYLHET AND CACHAR. 197 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar, Shillong and the Khasi hills, 

 and Godwin-Austen procured it in the Dikrang valley of the 

 Dafla hills, but beyond this I know nothing of its distribution in 

 Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[ I saw a couple of males one day while trolling for mahseer 

 Up the " Tarap," a small hill stream that debouches into the 

 plains from the Naga hills, a few miles from Makum in the 

 Dibrugarh district. Along the Dehing river, which in 

 parts of its course in the plains is bordered by hills, not a 

 single specimen of this species is to be seen, even so high up 

 as Beesah in the Kamptee country. — J. R. C] 



Blyth records this from Arakan and Thayetmyo, but I have 

 never yet seen it from the latter place or from any part of 

 British Burmah except the Arakan hills. 



506.— Ohimarrhornis leucocephalus, Vig, 



Seen in the Western hills in the Eerung, and very common in 

 the Liraatak, where however it was very shy and wild, not allowing 

 one to get openly within shot. I never saw it in the basin, nor 

 did I see it in the few streams of the Eastern hills I visited. 



Bill frovi gape. Weight, 



0-76 1-2 0Z8. 



0-73 115 „ 



08 10 „ 



79 1-2 „ 



0-75 0-98 „ 



Legs, feet and bill blaqk ; irides deep brown. 



I have this from Shillong and the Khasi hills, and Godwin- 

 Austen records it from the Dikrang valley of the Dafla hills, 

 but I have no further knowledge of its occurrence in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. 



[From Jaipur in the Dibrugarh district the low-outlying 

 spurs of the Naga hills begin. In places these run right down 

 to the " Dehing " river, and wherever these rocks jut into that 

 stream these birds are to be found. The " Desang " river too 

 above " Boshat, " ten miles east of Jaipur, has also a rocky an^ 

 sandy bottom, where these birds also are seen. Nearly every rapid 

 is frequented by one or two of this species. They seem particularly 

 down on Henicurus im-macwZafwSjdrivingaway any they see from 

 their particular haunt. They are permanent residents. — J. R. C] 



It occurs in the Arakan hills, but I am not aware that it 

 has been observed in either Pegu or Tenasserim. 



From Shillong I have several specimens of 507. — Larvivora 

 superciliaris, Jerd., but I never met with it in Manipur, nor 



