ASSAM, SYLHET AND CACHAR. 211 



Godwin-Austen procured it, I gather, somewhere in the 

 Eastern hills. It is true he identified his bird as P. rufescens, 

 Bly. (which name has precedence), but I myself have little 

 doubt that, as Blyth himself contended, the two birds are 

 identical (though the names represent different stages of 

 plumage), as is also, I suspect, P. superciliaris, Salvad, 



We have no other record as yet of the occurrence of this 

 species in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, but it is common through- 

 out Tenasserim in all suitable localities, and^ occurs both 

 in Pegu and Arakan, though it is probably rarer in the latter. 



[This species is not so common in Dibrugarh as the last. 



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



? 23-1-80 ... 460 5-20 215 1-80 0-73 0-50 0-25 oz. 



$ 7-8-80 ... 4-55 450 1-80 1-70 0-8O 0-58 0-25 „ 



$ 20-11-0 ...4-85 5-20 225 ISO 0-75 0-55 0-82 „ 



Irides reddish amber ; legs and feet fleshy yellow ; bill black ; 

 eyelids reddish. — J. K. C] 



539.— Cisticola cursitans, FranU. 



I had already pointed out (S. F., V, 91) that G. manipu- 

 rensis, G.-Aust,, was only the cold-weather plumage of this 

 species, but being in Manipur, where it is very common 

 throughout the basin (I never observed it in the hills), I 

 determined to make assurance doubly sure, and I shot an 

 immense series. Many of these were fac similes of the speci- 

 men so artistically figured by Godwin-Austen, but all of these 

 I was able to match exactly with specimens killed at the 

 same time of year in various parts of India as far west as 

 Kelat. 



I have this from the Ehasi hills and from several places in 

 the Dibrugarh district, and I met with it continually all across 

 Svlhet and Cachar, from Lukhai at the south-west corner 

 of the former to beyond Lakhipur near the north-east end of 

 the latter, but beyond this I have no certain knowledge of its 

 distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



Throughout the level grass and paddy lands of British 

 Burmah this species is common, but there are in all the pro- 

 vinces, and specially in Tenasserim, huge tracts virhere, the 

 country being unsuited to it, it is never seen. 



541.— Cisticola tytleri, Bly. 



I retain the name tpleri as already explained (X, p. 219 n,) for 

 the present, though still unable to point to the exact place 

 where Blyth published the name, because Tytler's types show 



