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Vol. XIll. BOMBAY. No. Ill. 
THE BIRDS OF CACHAR. 
By KE. C. Stuart Baker, F.2.S., M.B.0.U. 
Wirs Prats H. 
(Continued from page 510 of Volume XII.) 
(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on 9th Oct., 1900.) 
When the first of these articles was commenced I intended merely to 
compile a catalogue of those birds which inhabited only the hill 
portion of the district of Cachar known as the North Cachar Hills, 
but, as time has gone on, and one number after another was written 
and printed, I found that, with the exception of the aquatic birds and the 
Raptores, there were but few birds found in the plains portion that 
were not also found in the hills. I have, therefore, incorporatedin my 
articles all and every bird found in the district, whether found in N. 
Cachar or not, and the title of my articles should therefore stand as 
the “ Birds of Cachar,”’ not of N. Cachar only. 
Again, it was not my intention originally to have dealt with the 
larger birds, such as Raptores, Waders, &c., but working on and on 
these too have been taken in with the rest, and I hope that now the 
catalogue will prove an almost exhaustive list of what is to be obtained 
in Cachar. 
The work has occupied avery large portion of my spare time 
(furlough and other leave) during the last thirteen years, and it will, at 
least, serve to show how much there yet remains to be done in field 
ornithology, even in country worked by such men as Hume, Godwin 
Austen and others. The final result of my work has been the addition 
of the following new species, Hlachura haplonota, Corythocichia 
