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In British Bunnah it is more or tess common everywhere 

 along the coast line and its immediate neighbourhood; but it is 

 much rarer inland. 



In the Noa Dehing, in the extreme east of the Dibrugarh 

 district, some of Godwin -Austen's survey people obtained a 

 specimen of 879. — Ibidorhynchis strnthersi, Vig. There is 

 no other record of its occurrence in Assam. I did not hear 

 of it anywhere in Manipur, nor does it extend to Sylhet, 

 Cachar or any part of British Burmah. It is a high-mountain, 

 rocky-torrent-bed bird, though in the cold season it occasionally 

 descends these beds nearly to the level of the plains. 



880,— Machetes pugnax, Lin. 



A few Ruffs and Reeves haunted a shallow near the north 

 end of the Logtak lake, but I saw them nowhere else. It 

 does not seem generally known in India ; that when fat and 

 in good condition, as we generally get them, this species is one 

 of the best of all birds for the table. To my mind they are 

 superior to everything but Woodcock. 



I have no record of the occurrence of this species anywhere 

 in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. Blyth records it from Arakan, I 

 have received it from the Bassein estuary, and Gates says it is 

 common in the creeks near the mouth of the Sittang, &c. In 

 Tenasserim we never saw this species except at its western- 

 most limit on the banks of the Sittang. 



8846w.— Tringa ruficollis, Pall 



This too I only once saw in Manipur, and that near the 

 Logtak lake. I was constantly on the look-out for all birds of 

 this class, but they are very scarce in Manipur, and this, usually 

 the commonest, was the scarcest of the few species I did see. 



I have seen this species from Sylhet, and Godwin-Austen 

 seems to have procured it there, but I never met with it 

 myself in either Sylhet or Cachar, nor have I any record of its 

 occurrence in any part of Assam. 



It is generally distributed throughout Arakan and Pegu, but 

 is very scarce in Tenasserim, and indeed so far as our 

 observations go is merely a straggler to the central portions of 

 the province, and is only at all abundant in the tract betweea 

 the Salween and Sittang. 



In both Sylhet and Cachar I observed 885.— Trinff a 

 temmincki, Leisl., and I have received this species from 



