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grading between C. asiatica and this form. Young males have the 
scarlet-and-maroon less developed, whilst young females do not have 
it at all, and cannot well be distinguished from the young females of 
C. asiatica ; on the other hand, old females have a trace of the 
maroon back, and often splashes of vermilion on the lower plumage. 
(401) CYANOPS ROBUSTIROSTRIS. 
I have now another specimen of this little Barbet, shot by the late 
Mr. M. G. Peddie at Bakhimpore, near Hathikhali, N. Cachar. 
The bird is exactly like my own specimen, and has the same golden 
sheen on the forehead instead of the dark shade which the young 
C. cyanotis has prior to the appearance of the black. 
(406) ALSOcoMUS PUNICEUS. 
Mr. V. Woods, Executive Engineer, Assam-Bengal Railway, tells 
me that he shot this species more than once in the plains, and he 
thinks the bird was not very rare there. 
(418) Crocopus PH@NICOPTERUS. 
Since writing No. VI. of these papers, I have seen a number of 
these pigeons, and they would not appear to be rare on the outskirts 
of the forests bordering Manipur and the North Lushai Hills. 
(442) ALCEDO BEAVANI. 
In the adult male the bill is wholly black—red on either upper or 
lower mandible is a sign of immaturity or sex. 
(443) ALCEDO GRANDIS. 
The female has nearly the whole of the Jower mandible red, and the 
kase of the upper mandible reddish. 
a (18) Hatcyon rrneata.—The Black-capped Kingfisher. 
Hume, No. 180; Blanford, No. 1045. 
Mr, A. Primrose, of Kattal, Cachar, has sent me a most beautiful speci- 
men of this species which he obtained in Cachar, and he also writes that 
he has since seen another specimen which, however, he failed to get. 
(453) CH&TURA NUDIPES. 
‘I shot a female in the last few days of May, 1899, which contained 
an egg ready for expulsion ; it was rather damaged in the fall, but was 
blowable, and makes a valuable, if not very perfect, specimen. The 
shell is very fragile, and I am inclined to think would have possibly 
slightly thickened before being laid. It is rather rough and has an 
unfinished appearance, which is probably exactly what it is. The 
