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very dark, black in some, blackisli in others, while in the 

 female it is a dull and not dark cinnamon rufous. The female 

 has no spurs. 



These specimens had fed, the one on birds and leaves and 

 tiny berries, not au insect except one small white grub, the 

 other on seeds, a small fruit and lots of insects, crickets, 

 grasshoppers, small caterpillars, and ants. 



I never set any traps in the Western hills, and do not hioio 

 that it occurs there, but one of my men declared he saw it 

 high up on the Western slope of the Limatol range at a place 

 where there is a lot of grass. 



This species occurs in the Garo, Khasi, North Cachar and 

 Naga hills, E. and W., it being particularly common about 

 Shillong. Beyond this I know nothing further of its dis- 

 tribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. It does not extend, so 

 far as we know, to any part of British Burmah, though it 

 doubtless occurs in Upper or Independant Burmah. 



827fer. — Perdicula manipurensis, Hume. 



I have fully described this species (IX, 467), and have 

 nothing further now to say about it. I only met with it along 

 the bases of the Eastern Manipur hills, and I am not aware 

 that it extends to any part of Assam, Sylhet, Cachar, or 

 British Burmah. 



829.— Ooturnix communis, Bonn. 



I shot a single specimen of the Common Quail near the 

 capital in Manipur, but though I beat many likely patches and 

 saw a good many Rain Quail, I never saw a second of this 

 species. 



The Common Quail is very scarce in Assam. I have it from 

 Sylhet (several localities). Northern Cachar (I got one at 

 Silchar itself) and Shillong. 



Godwin- Austen got it at Cherrapoonjee. Colonel Graham 

 recorded that he had met with it in Goalpara, Kamrup, 

 Durrang and Lakhimpur, in all of which it was rare, but 

 that further east it did not occur. 



[In Dibrugarh the Grey Quail is decidedly rare. During the 

 cold weather a brace or two might be picked up in the season 

 in the paddy fields of the open parts of the country. I saw 

 only one female that was shot not far from the station of 

 Dibrugarh.— J. R. C] 



Blyth records it from Arakan, Blanford procured it in 

 Pegu, and I have received it from the Bassein district, but it 



