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The Assamese call them '' Duboi," and snare them with 

 horse-hair nooses and a decoy bird. 



Length. Expanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape. Weight. 

 $ 11-40 16-50 1-90 5 60 1-50 9i 10'25 oza. 



11-40 1610 230 540 1-50 10 9-75 „ 



„ ... 11-10 160 2-30 535 1 50 10 70 „ 



Legs, feet and claws lobster red ; bill black ; irides brown ; 

 sldn of the head, cheeks, throat, and mouth inside deep reddish 

 pink.— J. K. C] 



In the Dafla hills Godwin- Austen obtained 825. — Arhoricola 

 ruftgnlaris, Bly., but this does not occur anywhere in Assam, 

 Syliiet or Cachar out of the Himalayas to which the Dafla 

 hills belong. In the higher hills of Tenasserim we have a 

 modified form of it, SISa.—A. tickelli, nobis., which is 

 intermediate in its characters between riijignlaris and 

 intermedium. 



From the north of the Goalpara district I have received 

 a sino-le specimen of Hibbis. — Arhoricola mandellii, nobis, 

 which" is therefore entitled to a place in the list of the birds 

 of Assam, but it has been recorded from no other part of 

 Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, and it does not extend to British 

 Burmah. 



824«er.— Arhoricola intermedius, Bit/. 



This species was very common in the Eastern Manipur 

 hills at elevations of 4,000 feet and upwards. In the Western 

 hills I did not see it. 



It frequented chiefly the thinner jungle, on the slopes of 

 the hills, which has grown up where in past years the primeval 

 forest had been felled for cultivation. They run terribly, 

 and without dogs it is only by the merest chance that one 

 can get a shot at them. As a rule they never fly,_ only 

 when, caught between two or three beaters, there is no 

 other means of escape do they make up their minds to show 

 themselves, and then they rise with a rush with comparatively 

 little noise, and sweep away smoothly and very rapidly down 

 hill. 



But though hard to shoot, because so rarely to be seen, they 

 are easy to snare on the hedge and noose system, and we got 

 numbers. They feed chiefly on small berries, jungle fruit, birds, 

 grain and seeds of different kinds, but I also found a few grubs 

 and soft-bodied insects in their stomachs. Their call is a very 



