JOURNAL 
OF THE 
a O Sis OE eo al ‘ 
dlatural History Society, 
Vol. XIll. BOMBAY. No. IV. 
THE BIRDS OF CACHAR. 
By E. C. Sruart Baksr, F.Z.#., M.B.O.U. 
Wire Prats I. 
(Continued from page 405 of this Volume.) 
(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society on 9th Oct., 1900.) 
80 (6) Liopriza aRactLis.—The Grey Sibia, 
Flume, No. 429 bis ; Blanford, No. 205. 
I have met with this bird several times of late years, and one year, 
1896, it occurred in vast numbers all round Hungrum and the 
adjacent lofty peaks. I also had two birds shot in the Jetinga valley, 
not above 300-feet altitude, in January, 1895. Its nest and eggs, which 
I have taken more than once, are like those described by Godwin- 
Austin. 
(126) Sirra rormosa.—The Beautifel Nuthatch, 
I have now met with this bird two or three times on the high 
peaks about Hungrum. Its actions when clambering about trees are 
remarkably like those of a Woodpecker, and its voice is a much 
lower pitched note than that of any other Nuthatch with which I am 
acquainted. 
135 (7) CrrtHia DiscoLor.—The Sikhim Tree Creeper. 
Hume, No. 245 ; Blanford, No. 344. 
I got a specimen of what I believe to have been this bird in May, 
1898, at Hungrum, but it was difficult to say what it was, and I 
cannot be quite sure. The lower plumage had been knocked all to 
pieces owing to the bird having been shot from underneath at close 
quarters with a charge of large shot, 
