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half a dozen large troups may be seen every morning grazing 

 about the marshy ronds that surround the lake, or on different 

 floating weed islands. I have received this from N.-E. Cachar, 

 and observed it twice, once near Lakhai, once near Karimganj 

 in Sylhet, but I know nothing of its distribution in Assam. 

 Blyth records this from Arakan. In Pegu Mr. Gates says it 

 is common in very large swamps and tracts of flooded grass 

 lands ; in Tenasserim we only know of its occurrence in the 

 central portions of the province and the tract lying between 

 the Sittang and Salween. 



903. — Fulica atra, Lin. 



The common Coot occurs, though not in any great numbers 

 except at the Logtak lake, about all the large ponds and j heels 

 of the Manipur basin. 



Strange to say I have as yet no record of its occurrence 

 anywhere in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, and I myself did not 

 observe it in either of the two latter districts. 



In Tenasserim it only occurs, so far as we know, in the 

 tract Ij'ing between the Sittang and the Salween, and in the 

 extreme north about Tonghoo. Though I have not seen it from 

 Pegu, Gates found it common at one large swamp north of Pegu 

 Town, but even he has seen it nowhere else in that province. 

 Blyth records it from Arakan, whence I have never seen it. 



Both in Cachar and in the Dibrugarh district specimens of 

 9036is. — Podica personata, G. R. Gr., have been procured, but 

 nothing further is known of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet 

 or Cachar. I did not procure or see this species in Manipur, 

 but I am pretty confident, from the careful description given 

 me, that it occurs in the north-east of Manipur. In Burmah 

 we only know of it in Pegu from the Engmah swamp and near 

 Shwaygheen, but it is very sparingly distributed almost 

 throughout Tenasserim in suitable localities. It has been also 

 sent from Karenee. 



Another species 904. — GalUcrex cinereus, Gm., has been sent 

 me from Joonkotollee, Dibrugarh, and has been recorded by 

 Godwin- Austen from the Khasi hills. But I know nothing 

 further of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, and I 

 never saw it in Manipur, though there can be little doubt that 

 it occurs there. 



[I found this bird fairly common in Dibrugarh, where it is 

 to be found in the cultivated pathars, as well as those 



