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Gauhatti, and several localities in the Dibrngarh district, and 

 Godwin-Austen includes it in his Dafla hill list from the 

 Dekrang valley. It occurs in Arakan and throughout the 

 Pegu hills, but does not extend, I believe, to any part of 

 Tenasserim, 



[This delicate little creature is found not only in the beds 

 of rocky streams but in all the dense forests of Dibrugarh 

 wherever these are damp and dark, and along the muddy 

 banks of the streams that run through them. Their cheery 

 whistle is often heard, though the bird is invisible owing to 

 the jungle. — J. R. C] 



586. — Henicurus schistaceus, Hodgs. 



I found this in all the streams of the Western hills, it being 

 specially numerous in the Eerung and Limata, but I never saw 

 it in either the basin or the Eastern hills. 



The following are details of some specimens : — 



Length. Hxjpanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus, Bill from gape. WeigTif'. 



Legs and feet (1) delicate fleshy white, (2) faintly bluish 

 white, (3) pinky white with a leaden tinge on front of tarsi 

 and toes ; bill black ; irides brown. 



I have not received this as yet from anywhere in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar, but Godwin-Austen procured it in the 

 Dekrang valley of the Dafla hills and in the E. Naga hills. 



Blyth records it from Arakan, and it is found throughout 

 Tenasserim, but I have no note as yet of its occurrence in 

 Pegu, in the north of which, however, it most probably does 

 occur. 



Godwin-Austen procured 587. — Henicurus scouleri, Vig., in 

 the Dekrang valley (Dafla hills) and in the E. Naga hills, but 

 I never saw it in Manipur, and I have no further knowledge 

 of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, and it does not, 

 I believe, extend to any part of British Burmah. 



Godwin-Austen also records having procured 589. — Mofa- 

 cilia maderaspatensis, Gm., on the Upper Barak river ; whether 

 inside Manipur limits or north of this, as is most probable I 

 cannot say. I suppose there is no mistake about the species, 

 but I met with this species nowhere and as yet have no 

 single record of its occurrence anywhere in Assam, Sylhet or 



