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low valleys running into the Garos, and has exceptionally 

 been found as high as 4,000 feet on the Cherrapoonjee plateau. 

 It does not occur on the Naga hills, nor is it known to extend 

 to any part of British Burmah. 



[The Swamp Partridge or " Hoe-koo-lee " of the Miris is 

 confined to the churs and banks of the " Brahmaputra " 

 river wherever they are covered with "null" (.-J rwnc^o karka, 

 Roxb.) jungle, and there it is very difficult to get more than 

 a brace or so, as the cover is too dense to allow of employing 

 beaters. While a party of us were shooting over one of these 

 churs on the 12th April 1884, one of the gentlemen caught 

 by hand a hen bird on her nest. Although the five e^g^'s, were 

 only half incubated, she never flew off. They were laid in 

 a depression at ihe bottom of a clump of " khuggree " 

 grass, of which there was a perfect mass growing around. — 

 J. H. C] 



It is somewhat difficult to say what Wood Partridges do 

 occur in Assam, as Godwin- Austen, who has chiefly procured 

 them, has been perpetually changing his mind as to what 

 species he had — an astounding thing, seeing that a child could 

 separate them. However to follow his latest utterances. In 

 the Naga hills he obtained 824. — Arhoricola torgueolua, 

 Valenc. 



I have never seen this from the Naga hills, Dam ant never 

 got it there, and, as far as I know, it has occurred nowhere 

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

 British Burmah. It does not occur in Manipur. 



8246is.--Arboricola atrogularis, Bly. 



One specimen of this species was brought to me at Noong- 

 zai-ban, having been snared somewhere a few miles north 

 along that range. We never met with the bird again. 



This is the Common Wood Partridge of Assam, very 

 common all over the Dibrugarh district and all along the valley 

 of Assam south of the Brahmaputra to the western slopes of 

 the Garos. Further it occurs in suitable localities in both 

 Sylhet and Cachar. We have this from N.-E. Cachar, not 

 intermedius, which God win- Austen seems to have got in the 

 North Cachar hills — I suspect a good deal further north than 

 where our specimens came from. This species does not extend 

 to any part of British Burmah. 



[Very common in the forest, only, where the whistling of 

 these birds is heard principally in the mornings and evenings. 



