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I procured it at Kategara in Central Sylhet, and have it 

 from Northern Sylhet near Seria Ghat. I saw it in several 

 places in Cachar, though it did not seem common there, and 

 have received it from the extreme N.-E. Cachar, from Shillong 

 and various parts of the Dibrugarh district, and this is all I 

 know for certain (though it must occur all over the valley) 

 of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[By no means so common in Dibrugarh as M. leucopsis, but 

 far from rare. — J. K C] 



It occurs throughout Northern Tenasserim and Pegu, being 

 common in the south, rarer to the north, but I do not seem 

 to have any actual record of its occurrence in Arakan, where, 

 however, it will certainly be found. 



591g'w«^.--Motacilla ocularis, Swinh. 



I, paid so little attention to Wagtails that a specimen of this 

 species that I shot and preserved at Kokshin Koonoo, I passed 

 over at the time as dukhunensis, and only discovered my 

 error on reviewing my specimens now. I cannot say whether 

 it is rare or common, but the specimen proves that it does 

 occur in the basin. 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar and Joonkotollee in the 

 Dibrugarh district, and this is all I know of its distribution 

 in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 



[This species too is not rare in Dibrugarh, but nowhere 

 numerically common. — J. R. C] 



I have it also from Lower and Central Pegu and Northern 

 Tenasserim, but know nothing further as to its occurrence in 

 British Burmah. 



592. — Calobates melanope, Pall. 



This too was rather common about the boulders of the 

 dry beds of the Limata and Eerung in the Western hills, and 

 I saw it occasionally about the capital and elsewhere in the 

 basin, but except about Kokshin Koolel and Koonoo it was 

 everywhere scarce, despite the abundance of meadows, swamps, 

 pools, rills, rivers and ditches. 



It is generally, though sparingly, spread throughout the valley 

 of Assam up to Sadiya. I have it also from Shillong, and 

 Godwin- Austen procured it at Cherrapoonjee, in the Eastern 

 Naga and in the Dafla hills. 



It occurs in suitable open localities all over Tenasserim, in 

 Southern and Central Pegu (if not in Northern Pegu also), and 

 in Arakan, but is nowhere, I believe, numerically abundant. 



