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It was not until the 8th of May that I procured any male in 

 full breeding plumage, with the entire cap, nape, sides of 

 neck, rump, chin, throat, and upper breast one uniform 

 brilliant crimson. 



I have this species from several places in the Khasi hills 

 . and from N.-E. Oachar, but this is all I know of its distribution 

 in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 



[These birds were observed by me only in April during their 

 migration. 



Legs and feet pale horny brown ; bill horny brown ; the 

 base of lower mandible and gape dingy yellow ; irides brown. 



These measurements are slightly in excess of those given 

 by Jerdon ; my specimens were all more or less in the breed- 

 ing plumage. — J. R. C] 



Blyth records it from Arakan, I have received it from the 

 north of Pegu, and Ramsay procured it at Tonghoo in the ex- 

 treme north of Tenasserim (as officially constituted, for this 

 is really a part of Pegu and does not geographically properly 

 pertain to Tenasserim), but beyond this I know nothing of its 

 occurrence in British Burmah. 



Godwin- Austen doubtfully identifies a female Eosefinch he 

 procured on the Mahadeo peak, Asalu, as 742. — Propasser 

 o-hodochrous, Vig. There is no other notice of the occurrence 

 of this species in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British 

 Burmah. 



750.— Hypocanthis spinoides, Vig. 



As noted at the time, I believe that I saw this species on the 

 Limatol range of the Western hills, but I failed to procure 

 a specimen, and I should not have entered it in this list had 

 not God win- Austen recorded it from Khajinghon, Manipur. 



We have no record of its occurrence anywhere in Assam, 

 Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah. 



From Lakhai at the south-west corner of Sylhet right 

 through this district and Cacharl found 754. — Mirafra assamica, 

 McClell., common alike in green fields and dry rice stubbles. 

 They rise when flushed something like quail, and fly, low and 



