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account is, of course, incomplete, because I have no specimens 

 killed later than the 6th of June, or earlier than the 28th 

 of December, but still it may help towards a knowledge of 

 the changes of plumage this species goes through. 



I met with this in various parts of both Sylhet and 

 Cachar in travelling across these districts. I have it from 

 N.-E. Cachar, as also from Sadiya and other places 

 in the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin-Austen found it 

 very abundant on the Bishnath plain. It does not, that 

 1 know of, extend to British Burmah. 



Godwin-Austen obtained 543. — Drymoeca inornata, Sykea 

 (of which D. longicaudata, Tick., is the winter plumage), 

 in the Khasi hills, and he includes it in his Dafia hill list ; 

 but I never saw it in Manipur, nor have I seen it myself from 

 any part of Assam, nor, lastly, is there any other record of 

 its _ occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. I do not know 

 of its occurrence in Burmah ; Blyth no doubt records it 

 from Arakan, but did he not fail to distinguish between I). 

 longicaudata and D. extensicauda ? 



[Common in the Dibrugarh district, frequenting " burtanees " 

 (high lands covered with long thatching grass), scrub jungle, 

 and secondary jungle that has grown up on the sites of 

 deserted villages. — J. R C.] 



544gwa«.— Drymoeca extensicauda, Swinh, 



Common enough in the long grass all over the Manipur basin. 



A female shot 7th March (colours of soft parts vary with the 

 season) measured : — 



Length, 6 7; expanse, 6-3; tail, 3-5; wing, 1-98; tarsus, 

 0-85 ; bill from gape, 0*57 ; weight, 0-29oz. 



Legs and feet fleshy pink, the feet tinged brownish ; bill brown, 

 pale horny fleshy at base of lower mandible ; irides bright yellow. 



I have no record as yet of the occurrence of this species 

 in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar ; but it occurs in suitable localities 

 all over British Burmah. 



I have never been able to make out Lord Walden'a 

 p. blanfordi from Tonghoo, but suspect that it is the 

 immature bird of this species. I have one such that answers 

 well to his description and dimensions. 



547.— Suya crinigera, Hodgs. 



I found this species common on the Eastern hills in May 

 (when, of course, they were more or less completely in the 



