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v/as also smashed, so I cannot say whether the other was laid by her or 

 not. It measures I'OS" X-90". 



All these eggs are identical in shape, colour and texture, differing 

 only in size. 



They were taken on the dates given below : — 



31st May, 1890, 17th May, 1892, 17th June, 1892, 30th May, 1892, 

 and 1st June, 1892, in the order in which they are described. 



In May and June, 1892, I must have seen fully four times as many 

 birds as I have seen in the other seven years that I have lived in 

 Cachar. * 



(436) EuDYNAMia honokata. — The Indian Coel. 

 Hume, No. 214; Blanford, No. 1120. 



The common form here is the Malayan type. It is, of course, very 

 numerous in the plains, but does not ascend the hills to any height. 

 Sub-Family Phcenicophc&nce. 



(437) Rhopodytes tristis.— The Large Green-billed Malkoha. 

 Hume, No. 215 ; Blavford, No. 1123. 



Very common up to about 3,000 feet. 



This is a very familiar bird in these hills, and I have even seen it 

 enter my compound. I never saw it feed on the wing until a few 

 daiys ago, when, as I was walking along a forest path, one of these 

 birds flew out of the bushes by the side and chased a large grass- 

 hopper, which passed by it, eventually catching it when within a yard 

 or two of my feet. 



The eggs vary enormously in size, viz.y from 1°24" to 1*68" in length 

 and from *86" to 1*17" in breadth. 



The average of forty is 1'46" X 1°03". 



They generally lay three eggs, sometimes only two. 

 Sub-Family Centropodinoi. 

 (438) Centbococcyx intermedius.— The Burmese Coucal. 

 Hume, No. 217 quat ; Blanford, No. 1130. 



The birds obtained in Cachar are nearer this form than any other, 

 but it is quite impossible to discriminate between them properly, even 

 Hume, the great splitter-up of the coucals, calls the Manipur form 

 (the same as this) neither true C. intermedius or true C. rufipennis, and 

 so throughout, the different forms all blend one into another, and the 

 variations at their highest value can be but subspecific. 



