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dlatural History Society, 
Wo. 2.| BOMBAY. [Vol. VIII. 
THE BIRDS OF NORTH CACHAR. 
A CATALOGUE 
OF THE PASSERIFORMES, CORACHFORMES, AND THE ORDER 
PSITTACI OF THE SUB-CLASS CICONIIFORMES, 
By E, ©. Stuart Baker, 
(With Plate A.) 
(Read before the Bombay Natural History Society 
on 6th September, 1893.) 
The three orders aboyenamed include all of what are popularly known 
as “small birds.” To take up the remaining orders of the Crconiiformes 
and the other two sub-classes, Galliformes and Struthioformes,1 should 
require to expend at least two years in thoroughly working up the heavy 
bheel land running along the foot of the hills, the whole of which swarms 
with water-birds all the year round, and in the cold season is visited, 
in addition, by numerous migrants. To do this I have neither time nor 
opportunity, and I therefore make known the results of six years’ 
work amongst the sub-classes mentioned, ina country teeming with 
bird-life, thinking it better to do this than wait until I can give a 
