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Beyond this specimen from Cachar above referred to there 

 is no other record, so far as I know, of the occurrence of this 

 species in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or Barmah, but I have no 

 doubt that it will hereafter prove to occur in all. 



But besides this there are a number of small obscure skulk- 

 ing species which occur in Assam, none of which I procured 

 in Manipur. I do not doubt that most of them occur there, 

 but they are birds that require very close collecting, and for 

 that in this first preliminary attack on the birds of Manipur 

 I had no time. It was all I could do to shoot and preserve 

 specimens of all the species that I met with without close 

 search. 



First of these I may note 519. — Schosnicola ajffinis, Hodgs., 

 of which I have many specimens form Shillong and which 

 Godwiu-Austen records from Sylhet on the banks of the 

 Megna (an odd place for this hill-loving species), but of the 

 distribution of which in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar I know 

 nothing further, and which is so far not known to extend to 

 British Burmah, 



Second, 519bis. — Schcenicola mandellii, Brooks (quite dis- 

 ■ tinct from Tribura luteiventris) , of which I have two speci- 

 mens from Shillong, but of the occurrence of which in Assam, 

 Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah I have no further knowledge. 



Third, there is 520. — Locustella straminea, Severtz.=Z. hen- 

 dersoni, Cass., apud nos, which Godwin- Austen records from 

 Cherrapoonjee, and of the occurrence of which also in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar I know nothing further. 



Then, fourth, I have 522. — Tribura luteiventris, Hodgs., from 

 Shillong and the Khasi hills, but am not aware that it has 

 as yet been recorded from elsewhere in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar, or from any part of British Burmah. 



Again, fifth, there is 524!, -^Schcenicola flaviventris, Hodgs., 

 recorded by Godwin- Austen from the Khasi hills, but not 

 known as yet to have occurred elsewhere within our pre- 

 sent limits. 



Then, sixth, 525. — Phylloscopus fuliginiventris, Hodgs., 

 obtained at Sadiya by some of Godwin-Austen's survey 



