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to the western base of the Liraatol range, and no further. It 

 does not occur in the basin, nor is it ever seen in the Eastern 

 hills. 



It is generally distributed in all suitable localities through- 

 out Assam, hills and plains (as far east at any rate as about 

 the 90° E. Long.), Sylhet and Cachar. I have no certain 

 knowledge of its occurrence in Eastern Assam, viz., in Lakliim- 

 pur, Sibsagar and Dibrugarh. 



[I saw the skin of a cock bird shot near Sonari in Sibsagar, 

 and they have been procured near Jaipur in Dibrugarh. Both 

 these places are not far from the base of the Naga hills, and 

 the country about is undulating and hillocky ground well-- 

 wooded, which is just the sort of place these birds frequent; 

 but they nowhere enter the plains proper, in Dibrugarh at all 

 events. — J. R. C] 



This species is common in Arakan, and again not rare in 

 the hill forests of Central and Northern Tenasserim, but 

 though it has been repeatedlj^ stated to occur in Pegu, I have 

 been unable to verify this, and Mr. Gates does not include 

 it in his list of the birds of that province. 



On the eastern borders of Assam lie the Mishmi hills, 

 a little more than nominal appanage of that province, and 

 from these hills are yearly brought down skins and live 

 specimens of 8045w. — Lopliophorus sdateri, Jerd. This species 

 does not, so far as I could learn, extend to Manipur^ nor has it 

 been discovered in any other part of Assam or British Burmah. 

 It is probably confined to localities where the hills rise to 9,000 

 or 10,000 feet elevation. 



Another species hitherto brought only from these Mishmi 

 hills, and observed nowhere else within our present limits, is 

 805di5. — Geriornis temmincki, J. E. Gr. 



Throughout the Naga and other Assamese hills south of 

 the Brahmaputra and eastwards from the Burrail range to 

 the higher hills south-east of Sadiya, at elevations of from 

 5,000 feet in winter to 9,000 and upwards in summer, we have 

 806bis. — Ceriornis hlythi, Jerd. It is not found elsewhere in 

 Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah, but from what 

 the Manipuris told me it would appear that this species occurs 

 in some very high hills in the north-east corner of their 

 territory. This is the more probable that my lamented friend 

 Mr. G. Damant found it near the villages of Kohima^ Khenomaj 



