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LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED DURING FIVE YEARS' 

 RESIDENCE IN THE HYLAKANDY DISTRICT, CACHAR 



Numbered according to Oates' " Birds (Fauna of British 

 India)/' and with references to Hume's " Nests and Eggs of 

 Indian Birds," 2nd Edition, and "Str^^y Feathers." 

 Part I. 

 By C. M. Inglis. 

 {Read before the Bomhay Natural History Society on \Qth April, 1896.) 

 Order Passeres. 

 Family Corvidce. 

 Sub-Family Corvince. 

 Gsnus Corvus (Linn., 1766). 

 No. 4. Corvus macrorhynchus.— The Jungle Crow (Wag.). 

 Hume, ♦' N. and E." 2nd Ed., Vol. I, p. 4 ; Hume, " S. F.," Vol. V, 

 p. 461; id.. Vol. IX, p. 256 ; id., Vol. XI, p. 256 ; Hume and Dav., 

 " S. F.," Vol. VI, p. 386 ; Bing., " S. F.," Vol. IX, p. 190. 



This bird is a permanent resident, and is the commonest crow found Beng. Kala 

 here. It may be seen everywhere. The breeding season is in Janu- 

 ary, when it makes a nest composed of sticks roughly placed together, 

 and lays from four to five eggs. 



No. 7. Corvus splendens. — The Indian House-Crow (Vicill.). 

 This species is not so common as C. macrorhynchus. It is only to be Kawa. 

 found in the vicinity of villages. Near Hylakandy station great num- 

 bers are to be seen, but I have not observed many elsewhere. Unlike 

 C. macrorhynchus, it does not frequent the tea-estates. It breeds in May, 

 Genus Cissa (Boie, 1826). » 

 No. 14. Cissa chinensis. — Green Magpie (Bodd.). 

 Hume, "N. and E.," 2nd Ed., Vol. I, p. 17 ; Hume and Dav., 

 " S. F.," Vol. VI, p. 385 ; Bing., " S. F.," Vol. IX, p. 191 ; Hume, 

 « S. P.," Vol. XI, p. 258. Cissa speciosa^ Hume, " S. F.," Vol. Ill, 

 p. 145 ; id., Vol. IV, p. 509 ; Bing., " S. F.," Vol. V, p. 85. 



This Magpie is a permanent resident and affects forest jungle. It 

 may be generally found in company with D. paradiseus, G. moniliger, 

 &c. It is very shy and wary, and on account of the colour of its plumage 

 which blends with the green of the jungle it is very difficult to observe. 

 In captivity it is very partial to raw eggs, I have been told by a friend 

 of mine. There has been a great deal written about the change of 



