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squamata, Cyanops rubescens, and C. robustirostris, and a knowledge of 
the nidification of nearly a hundred species about which nothing was 
previously on record. 
In this final number I have added a few birds not previously record- 
ed, and a few more notes on nidification and other matters which I 
have obtained since my first articles were written. 
The total number of species now enumerated is 695—a very large 
advance on the species formerly recorded. ‘The area of the whole 
district of Cachar is 4,200 square miles, and when one compares it with 
other areas of the same size, or vastly greater, the large number 
obtained in it is truly astonishing. 
In my first introduction I gave a rough description of the country in 
N. Cachar. In the plains portion the major part is flat ground about 
70' to 100! above sea level, much of it under water during the rains, and 
containing at all times huge sheets of water and lakes which afford 
quarters for many birds which could obtain no suitable country in N. 
Cachar. Here and there grass lands, sometimes very extensive, form 
breeding haunts for certain owls, quail, warblers, etc., found in the hills 
only as rare stragglers. 
Where the hills and plains meet the ground is generally very 
much broken up, and consists, first, of rolling “ tilas,” or small rounded 
hills, running up to a hundred feet or so, and then of more rugged hills, 
which may reach three or even five hundred feet above sea level. 
After these the hill ranges are generally decidedly abrupt in the way 
they abut on the lower hills, and the first main range consists of a 
series of peaks from 3,000 to 5,000 feet. 
(14) PARADOXORNIS GUTTATICOLLIS.—Austen’s Crow-Tit. 
On the 21st of April, 1895, I was fortunate enough to obtain a nest 
with two eggs of this bird, trapping a female on the nest. This was 
the same kind of structure as that of P. favirostris, viz.,a deep cup 
_ composed of shreds of bark from a yellow grass, equally yellow shreds 
of bamboo leaves, all extremely neatly and compactly bound together, 
and lined with very fine dark coloured grasses. The nest only differed, 
as far as I could see, from those of others of the genus in not being 
quite so tidy. 
The dimensions were, externally 3°60" in diameter by 3°40" deep, 
and internally 2°2"% 1:9". 
