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I have no record of its occurrence anywhere in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. 



[One cold season in December a party of half-a-dozen of tea 

 planters, of whom I was one, started from Jaipur in Dibrugarh 

 to go up the " Dehing " river fishing. The banks all the 

 way up to Busa in Kamptee territory are low, except for 

 about 15 miles of the south-easterly bank, where the low 

 ranges of the Naga hills run down to them, and there are 

 large stretches 'of sand, where single individuals and pairs 

 of this species were noticed, and although one of us had 

 several long shots every day at some of them, we failed 

 to get a single specimen. — J. E,. C] 



It occurs sparingly about the banks of the larger rivers in 

 Arakan, Pegu and Central Tenasserim. 



863.— Grus antigone, Lin, 



I saw a good number of Sarus towards the lower 

 southern end of the Kopum Thall, and in the basin I saw 

 a good many at different times about the larger j heels and 

 especially at and about the Logtak lake. 



I am pretty certain the Sarus does not occur in Cachar, and 

 I have no knowledge of its occurrence in Sylhet. In the valley 

 of Assam it is common as far as the Darrang district, and 

 occurs, though more sparingly, in the Lakhimpur district, but 

 is not found I think further east. 



[Found in pairs about the damp " pathars " and paddy fields 

 in Dibrugarh. In June, 1883, when cutting across from Ting 

 Kong to Jaipur, I came across a party of 20 birds near one 

 of the villages that lay in my route. Assamese, " Khoor- 

 Sung."— J. R. C] 



It occurs in the level portions of Arakan and Pegu, and in 

 those few parts of Tenasserim where there are wide plains 

 as in the valleys of the Attaran and Sittang. 



On the 13th of March, when between Booree Bazar and 

 Bishnoopoor, a small flock of Cranes passed me at a distance of 

 about 250 yards, flying low and due north. I got on to a 

 small mound and watched them for probably more than a 

 mile with my glasses, but when I lost sight of them, they 

 were still flying steadily away northwards. Now, whatever 

 they were, they were certainly none of our Indian species— 

 antigone, leucogeranus, co7)imunis, virgo. They were of a 

 uniform dark hue, much darker than communis, and had 

 the whole head and upper parts of the neck pure white. Of 



