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mandible, and especially the base of this and gape ; irides 

 brown to deep brown. 



Some birds killed before the close of February have the 

 whole breast vinaceous and have nearly lost all the spots. 

 One killed on the 20th of April shows as yet no signs of 

 summer plumage. , • i /• i. 



This is the Pipit of Sylhet ; it is essentially a bird of wet 

 localities. In Cachar it is less abundant. We have received 

 it from N.-E. Cachar, Shillong, Cherrapoonjee and numerous 

 localities in Dibrugarh, but beyond this I know nothing of 

 its distribution in Assam, nor has it ever that I know been 

 observed anywhere in British Burmah, except in Arakan, fide 



Blyth. ., , , 



[Common in suitable localities in Dibrugarh, where it is 

 found in damp open places, such as paddy fields and " pathars. 

 —J. R. C] 



605&75 — Anthus cervinus, Pall 



A single specimen of this species was shot by one of my 

 men, near the bases of the Eastern hills below Aimole in April. 

 I think I saw a flock of these Pipits in some low fine wet grass 

 near Phalel on the 10th of April. 1 noted at the time that I 

 thought they were this species, but they were very shy, and I 

 could not bother after them at the time. About ten days later 

 the specimen referred to was shot not far from where I saw 

 these. If I am correct, this was, I believe, the only place in 

 which we saw them in Manipur. 



I have never seen this species yet from anywhere in Assam 

 Sylhet or Cachar, but Godwin-Austen records it from the 

 Khasi hills. At the same time he does not record rosaceus 

 which is so common, and there may have been some mistake. 

 Throughout the central and northern portions of Tenasserim, 

 this species is generally distributed wherever ^ the country 

 is open and not too elevated. It is very common in the plains 

 of Lower Pegu, very scarce apparently in the north. It has 

 also been sent from the south of Arakan. 



QObquat. — Anthus blakistoni, Swinh. 



On a newly-ploughed field, in which however a quantity of 

 fine grass or young rice was growing (I did not notice parti- 

 cularly at the time) near the margin of the Logtak lake, on 

 its eastern marshy shore, I met with a flock of dark-legged 

 Pipits, of which I shot a couple as they rose out of the boat. 

 I did not look at them at the time, as the shot roused birds 



