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Irides red brown ; orbital ring dull purple ; legs lake ; claws 

 black ; cere dull purple ; bill leaden blue. On the 29th July, 

 1879, 1 saw one of these birds fly up into a tree, that stood on 

 the border of the tea garden, with a twig in its bill. On the 

 7th of August I sent up a man, but the nest had been deserted. 

 The nest was a very meagre affair of the usual columbine 

 type.— J. R. C] 



It is common all over British Burmah in suitable localities. 



From Shillong I have 781. — CarpopJiaga insignis, Hodgs., 

 and Godwin- Austen says it was in enormous numbers in April 

 at the hot saline springs of Namba on the Dunsiri, and pretty 

 common at No. 9 Camp in the Dekrang valley of the Dafla 

 hills, and that Beavan procured it at Molshai in the North 

 Cachar hills, but it has not yet been recorded from anywhere 

 else in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, and it is not known to extend 

 to British Burmah. I saw nothing of it in the Western 

 Manipur hills, and in the Eastern it is represented by the 

 next species. 



[Not uncommon in the Dibrugarh district where they are 

 found towards the south-easterly portion, and even there very 

 locally distributed, as the only places in which I noticed them 

 were Jaipur and between the Noharanee and Sepon Tea 

 gardens. When on the wing these birds are readily distin- 

 guished from C. osnea by their greater size and whitish 

 under tail-coverts. — J. R. C.] 



781«er.— Carpophaga griseicapilla, Wald, 



I only met with this species in the Eastern hills, where it 

 was not uncommon, and where morning and evening its dull 

 double drum-like and very base call was generally to be heard. 

 But it was wary to a degree, and often as I went after it I 

 only succeeded in procuring four specimens from first to last. 

 Two I fairly stalked after wasting half, a day after each, and two 

 (on different occasions), startled by some of my people, by good 

 luck flew over the forest where I was standing, and, long shots 

 as both were, dropped to my gun to my exceeding delight. 



I measured all four birds, but the figures for two have been 

 somehow lost : — 



Legs and feet a rich purplish lake or lake purple ; claws 

 pale drab or brown, paling at their bases ; soles whitey 

 brown ; corneous tips of both mandibles pale brown or pale 



