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meadows, the grass is everywhere too coarse, and there is very 

 little fine grass or smooth sward. In the few places vvhere 

 I met with this, B. citreola was abundant enough. 



I procured this both in Sylhet and Oachar in several places, 

 and have it from all over the Dibrugarh district, but beyond 

 this I have no exact knowledge of its occurrence in Assam, 

 though it is doubtless found throughout the valley. It has 

 not yet been recorded from British Burmah. 



[Pretty common in the Dibrugarh district. — J. R. C] 



595. — Limonidromus indicus, Gm. 



This was occasionally seen high up on the Eastern hills in 

 the neighbourhood of Aimole, Matchi and Tankool Hoondoong — 

 in every case I think (at the end of April and during May) 

 at an elevation of at least 4,500 feet, and one I shot at fully ^ 

 6,000 feet. Except in these Eastern hills I never chanced to 

 meet with it anywhere in Manipur. 



In Assam, Sylhet and Cachar, I only have it from Shillong 

 and N.-E. Cachar, and do not know of its having been 

 observed elsewhere as yet in those districts. 



It is essentially a thinly-distributed, forest-ha,mating species, 

 and is found in suitable localities throughout British Burmah. 



596.— Anthus maculatus, Hodgs. 



Very common in the Western hills, where it haunts the 

 road sides in pairs, parties or singly, and is with Gulicicapa 

 ceylonensis one of the commonest birds along the hill roads. 

 In the basin it seemed scarcely less common, and too often 

 was shot by mistake when perched high up on tall trees or 

 poking about on the ground in the heart of some dense hedge 

 or bush. I never knowingly shot it, nor did we preserve all 

 I did shoot, and yet I have brought away over twenty speci- 

 mens. In the Eastern hills it is much rarer, but even there 

 I shot it high up at 5,500 feet and upwards during April and 

 the first half of May. I did measure one of these wretches 

 and may as well record the particulars. 



Ferrtale. — Length, 665 ; expanse, 10"65 ; tail, 2'5 ; wing, 

 3-12 ; tarsus, 084 ; bill from gape, 6 ; weight, 0"78oz, 

 Legs, feet and claws pale fleshy ; upper mandible palish brown ; 

 lower mandible pale fleshy ; irides deep brown. 



I obtained a rather peculiar variety of this species : — 



<?.— Manipur city ... ... 22-2-81. 



?.— Moirang ... ... - ... 14-3-8L 



<?,— Above Matchi at 6,000 feet ... 10-5-81. 



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