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of ground, used as a sort of rice-market. I fired one barrel 

 of snipe shot into them as they rose at about forty yards, 

 and secured twenty-three, out of which no less than fourteen 

 were immature birds. Thereafter I came across them in 

 small parties (never again in so huge a flock ) pretty well all 

 over the basin. 



Having now a very large series from Manipur, about 30 

 from Assam and Oachar and several more from the neighbour- 

 hood of Moulmein, I am glad to be able to suppress two 

 species of mine, viz., A. inglisi and A. superstriata. The latter 

 name, of course, I gave before suhundulata was given, but it 

 was not published till several months later. 



I cannot, indeed, exactly match the types of either inglisi or 

 superstriata, even out of my very large series of suhundulata ; 

 those of the former are as grey on the rump as nisoria, those 

 of the latter small and striated, very strongly on the upper 

 surface, but I have some specimens sufficiently near them to 

 convince me that these are merely extreme and abnormal 

 forms of suhundulata^ and I gladly give both supposed species 

 the coup de grace. 



I have A. suhundulata from N.-E. Cachar, from Shillong, 

 Mouflong and other places in the Khasi hills, and from many 

 places in the Dibrugarh district, but beyond this I know 

 nothing of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[This is the commonest Munia in Dibrugarh, where, ex- 

 cept during the breeding season, they go about in small flocks, 

 frequenting the open country. They breed in August and 

 September, making their nests, at no great height, in trees, very 

 often on those growing alongside of houses. Five is the 

 number of eggs in each nest according to my experience. 

 —J. K C] 



In Burmah this species is common all over Pegu and Northern 

 Tenasserim, and occurs sparingly in Central Tenasserim. 



I do not know whether it is this species or A. punctulata, 

 Lin., that occurs in Arakan, but probably the former. 



702. — Amadina acuticauda, Hodgs. 



I only observed this species in the Eastern hills at from 

 3,000 to 4,000 feet elevation, and never near the summits of 

 the higher hills. It was nowhere at all abundant. 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar, Doobri near Gauhatti, the 

 Darrang district (where Godwin-Austen also got it below 

 the bases of the Dafla hills^ Sadiya, Tippook and many places in 

 the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin- Austen records it from the 



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