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Generally distributed throughout the plains on "bhils" or forest streams 

 " jans ", E. Dangari, Digiltarung, Gurrung Jan, Kungagora ; Bhimpoora 

 bhil, Gogaldhubie. 



Dejoo (In North Lakhimpur plentiful), Komolabari. 



280. Halcyon smyrnensis fusca (Bodd.) [1044]. — The White-breasted King- 



fisher. 



HaUyon smyrnensis, Blanford, F. B. I., Vol. iii., p. 132. 

 Plentifully distributed throughout the plains. 



281. Halcyon pileata (Bodd.) [1045], — The Black-capped Kingfisher. 

 Dejoo, North Lakhimpur, 7-4-04. Eecorded, Journal, B. N. H.Socy., 



Vol. xvi., p. 154. It has not occurred since. As this Kingfisher occurs in 

 Upper Burma, the inference to be drawn is that its appearance ought to 

 take place more frequently than it actually has done as it appears to be 

 addicted at performing sporadic movements. 



282. Halcyon coromanda coromanda (Lath.) [1046]. — The Ruddy Kingfisher. 



Callialcyon lilacina, Blanford, F. B. I., Vol. iii., p 134. 



Sparingly distribvited throughout the plains. 



Rungagora, 7-8-02, a specimen brought in alive which had been caught in 

 the Dinjan tea-house ; several captures of Kingfishers reported to me from 

 the same quarter and under similar conditions. 



Dejoo (base of hills), North Lakhimpur. Forest clearance, 10-6-07, J', 

 one of a pair which had a nest containing young about fifty feet above the 

 ground in a huge Poma tree (Chickrasia tabularis). At the time I was not 

 aware that this was a breeding bird as the remaining bird was unable to 

 repel the buffetings of some Paroquets, Palceornis fasciatus ; the nest was 

 eventually deserted owing to these miscreants dislodging the young birds. 



283. Dichoceros bicornis (L.) [1051]. — The Great Hornbill. 



Occurs throughout the plains, more plentiful at the foot hills, a denizen of 

 lofty forest trees and in consequence diflicult to secure. The noise made 

 by these birds is daily produced in an almost exact representation by the 

 " paniwallah " as he returns with his tins of water balanced on his " sangra" 

 to the cook house, an operation which has misled me to believe these 

 Hornbills were passing overhead on not a few occasions, 26-2-09*. 



Dejoo to Silonibari forest, fourteen Z>. 6jcAo?'ms in two relays, ten in front 

 and four behind, making for the forest. 



Dejoo, 22-4-08*, this morning I came suddenly on three pairs in some 

 huge trees adjacent to the seed nurseries, they bounded up and along the 

 thick branches with rapid though ungainly hops, some were within 

 gunshot before taking flight. 



S . Iris crimson-red ; bill : upper mandible gamboge yellow merging 

 towards tip into orange-red, lower mandible pale horny yellow merging 

 towards tip into yellow ; upper surface of casque orange-red ; basal half 

 of culmen and front black ; base of lower mandible black ; orbital skin 

 and tarsus dark olive ; claws horny. $ , Iris pearly white. 



284. Anthracoceros albirostris affinis (Hutton) [1053, part]. — The Large 



Pied Hornbill. 



Anthracoceros albirostris, Blanford, F. B. I., Vol. iii., p. 145. 

 The Common Hornbill of the plains. Occasionally seen on the ground 

 in forest, disturbed several of a small party partaking of the over ripe 

 berries that had fallen. Drepai, 26-1-06. 



S f Iris reddish-brown ; tarsus greenish-plumbeous. 



285. Rhytidoceros undulatus undulatus (Shaw.) [1054]. — The Malayan 



Wreathed Hornbill. 

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