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531.— Orthotomus coronatus, Jerd. & Ely. 



I believe I saw this species on the Limatol range of the 

 Western hills, but I only procured it on the higher portions 

 of the Eastern hills, where it was pretty common. 



The call of this species is harsh, grating and unmusical, 

 and far louder than from the size of the bird could ever have 

 been expected. 



A male measured :— Length, 485 ; expanse, 58 ; tail, I'S ; 

 wing, 1-85 ; tarsus, 076 ; bill from gape, 065 ; weight, 0-21oz. 

 Tarsi brown ; feet pale yellowish brown ; bill blackish, 

 pale yellowish brown on gonys and lower edges of rami of 

 lower mandible ; irides grey brown, tinged with red. 



I have this species from Joonkotollee in the Dibrugarh 

 district, and Godwin -Austen records it from Cherrapoonjee, 

 but beyond this I know nothing certain as to its distribution 

 in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[A male shot in the Dibrugarh district on the 20th I^Tovember 

 measured:— Length, 4-80; expanse, 5-40 ; tail, 1-80 ; wing, 1'85 ; 

 tarsus, 0-75 ; bill from gape, 0-75 ; weight, 0-20oz. Bill above 

 dusky, below paler, tinged yellow at base and gape ; legs and 

 feet fleshy yellow. This bird was shot in some brushwood on 

 the border of a village, and although I never again noticed 

 any, they are probably pretty common. — J. K. C] 



In Burmah I only know of it on the highest hills of Central 

 Tenasserim, but Ramsay also procured it on the Tsankoo hills 

 at 3,000 feet. 



532.— Prinia flaviventris, Deless. 



I never met with this in either the Eastern or Western 

 hills, except in the Kopum Thull, a level basiu, some old lake's 

 bed,' precisely analogous to the Manipur level. Throughout 

 this latter it was generally distributed in suitable localities, 

 it being essentially a bird of swamps and jheels, wet ditches or 

 flooded land, where there is high grass or scrub to creep about 

 in ; for these birds are great skulks, never, apparently, willingly 

 showing themselves, except perhaps in the early mornmgs 

 and towards evening, when they will rarely mount to the 

 summit of some lofty grass stem and twitter out their little 

 feeble song, as a rule creeping about through the hedges 

 and long grass near the ground, so that one rarely knows 

 what they are till one has shot them. 



At different times a good many remarks have been made 

 about the supercilium in this species. The simple _ fact is 

 that all over the country the great majority have it m the 



