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Sylhet or Cachar, and in British Burmah I only know of its 

 occurrence in Upper Pegu. 



Then Godwin- Austengives552&w. — Neornisassimilis, Hodgs., 

 from both Shillong and the Naga hills. I pointed out, S. F., 

 VI, 351, that the birds thus identified by Jerdon, and one 

 of them bearing Blyth's own label as Drymoeca brevicaudata, 

 were only immature 526. — Schoenicola fortipes, Hodgs. Mr. 

 Seebohm, I see, now adopts this view in his Catalogue, so I 

 fancy we may now suppress N. assimilis. 



552«er.--Neornis albiventris, God.-Aust. 



The original description of this supposed species is repro- 

 duced, S. F., V, 55. The type was obtained at Sengmai in 

 the north-east of the Manipur basin. 



I don't know what this bird is, and I very much doubt if it 

 be a good species. Seebohm ignores it. 



555.— Phylloscopus fuscatus, Ely. 



This was the very first bird I shot in Manipur ; I killed it on 

 the bank of the Jhiri, before I got out of the boat in which 

 I crossed. I saw several more in the Jhiri level. I did not 

 notice it in the Western hills, but found it common all over 

 the Manipur basin, and shot one on the 2nd of May at fully 

 5,500 feet elevation on the Eastern hills close to Matchi. 



This was the only Phylloscopus that could be called 

 common in any part of Manipur ; the rest were very scarce, 

 only seen once or twice, and only procured at all by reason of 

 the persistence with which I hunted after them. 



I measured, &c., three fuscatus : — 



Length, Expanse^ Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape. Weight. 



$ ... 5-2 7-4: 215 2-26 0-9 0-49 O'Sl oz. 



„ ... 5-0 7-3 2-0 2-42 0*87 0-53 031 ,, 



5 ... 4-8 70 1-8 2-3 0-85 0-52 0-35 „ 



(1) Legs and feet brown, darker on feet ; bill dark brown, 

 yellowish horny at base of lower mandible ; irides brown. 



(2) Front of tarsi pale fleshy brown ; back of ditto, feet 

 and soles pale yellow ; upper mandible dull brown ; lower man- 

 dible, except tip and gape, pale horny whitish ; irides brown. 



(3) Legs, feet and claws yellowish olive ; upper mandible 

 very dark brown ; tip of lower mandible pale brown ; rest of 

 lower mandible and gape yellow ; irides dark brown. 



This species seemed common in the Sylhet and Cachar 

 districts, wherever I went, and Godwin-Austen got it at 



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