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849.— ^gialitis dubia, Scop. 



This species was pretty common about the jheels and on 

 river banks in the Manipur basin, and I saw it once on the 

 Eerung river in the Western hills. 



I also procured it and saw it in several places in Sylhet, but 

 I have as yet no knowledge or record of its occurrence m 

 Assam or Cachar. It is generally, though rather sparingly, 

 distributed throughout all the provinces of British Burmah. 



[Rather uncommon in Dibrugarh, where pairs, and 

 occasionally small parties, are seen in the beds of the larger 

 rivers and in damp meadows, wherever these are of any 

 extent.— J. R. C] 



850.— .ffigialitis jerdoni, Legge. 



This too was not uncommon in the Manipur basin in the 

 same localities as the last. 



I have as yet no record of its occurrence anywhere m 

 Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. I have received this from near Akyab, 

 in Arakan, from Northern Pegu, where it seems rather 

 common, and from Central Tenasserim, in which provmce it 

 must be excessively rare. 



854.— Chettusia cinerea, Blj/. 



I first met with this in Manipur in the Kopum Thall, and 

 then I found it generally distributed throughout the basm, 

 but everywhere numerically scarce and so extremely wild 

 and wary that it was almost impossible to procure specimens. 

 Indeed it was only at the Logtak lake that I succeeded m 

 getting any, and there I only secured five. 



They were not nearly so wild in either Sylhet or Cachar, m 

 both of which districts I observed them in many places and 

 shot several. I have no record as yet of its occurrence in any 

 part of Assam. 



[I came across a party of seven one cold season m a large 

 damp " pathar " in the Dibrugarh district, but they were so wary 

 that I failed to get a specimen. On the other hand I have 

 shot numbers in Dacca and Sylhet, where they allow one to get 

 within range. — J. R. C] , ^^ m 4. i 



This species is generally distributed throughout Pegu, Central 

 Tenasserim, and the tract lying between the Sittang and the 

 Salween, but I believe that it is nowhere numerically abundant. 

 Doubtless it must occur in Arakan, but I have no record of its 

 occurrence there. 



