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at Cherrapoonjee, but I do not know yet of its certain occur-' 

 rence elsewhere in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, 



Blyth records this from Arakan, but I do not know of its 

 occurrence elsewhere in British Burmah. 



bS^ter. — Henicurus leschenaulti, Vieill. 



I only once shot this in the stream along the course of 

 which we ascended to Tankool Hoondoong in the Eastern 

 hills. It was a narrow torrent rushing down a stony bed, 

 entirely closed in on all sides and above by dense forest. 

 Here there were several, though I only secured a single 

 specimen, a male. Length, 11'3 ; expanse, 1355 ; tail, QO ; 

 wing, 4-27 ; tarsus, 1 '29 ; weight, l*89oz. The legs and feet 

 are a delicate fleshy white ; bill black ; irides brown. 



This is the larger race that some would separate from the 

 Javan leschenaulti as sinensis of Gould, but I have now seen 

 many of these, and do not think them specifically separable. 

 Godwin-Austen says that specimens that he procured in the 

 Dafla hills are larger than Chinese birds, yet the dimensions 

 he gives fall short of three out of four Chinese specimens 

 I have. 



I have never seen this from any part of Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar, but Godwin- Austen records it both from the Dafla and 

 Eastern Naga hills. 



In British Burmah it is found in the northern and central 

 portions of Tenasserim, but not elsewhere, so far as I know. 



585.— Henicurus immaculatus, Hodgs, 



Between Jhiri Ghat and Noongzai-ban this was most 

 abundant, and I saw it in all the intervening country and 

 found it swarming in the Eerung, but eastwards of this I 

 have never noted that I saw it, and I certainly did not preserve 

 a single specimen after leaving the Eerung valley. Had I 

 seen it in the Eastern hills I should certainly have shot it. 

 The following are details of some I measured : — 



Legs and feet pale fleshy, or fleshy white, or delicate creamy 

 white ; bill black ; irides brown. 



This is the common species of Assam. I have it from N.-E. 

 Cachar, Northern Sylhet, the Garo and Khasi hills, from near 



