﻿172 Godwin-Austen — Foiirfli list of Birds from the [No. 3, 



and when the above bird was picked up, a quantity of the saline water 

 poured out of its mouth. 



797. TuKTUR nuJiiLis, Temniinck. 



Garo Hills. 



8UG«. Cemoenis Bltthii, Jerdon. 



^ described in the J. A. S. B. 1S70, p. 60. 



This bird is very difficult to obtain, and I failed to get the female, which 

 has never yet been seen by an}^ European. I heard them in the forest on 

 the ascent to Khunho, but although I offered 20 Rs. for a bird, the Nagas 

 only once succeeded in getting one ; this, a male, was snared near the 

 village of Yiswemah, but thinking that I wanted the feathers only, the 

 natives had, to my utter disgust, picked and eaten it. Another male was 

 brought to Captain Butler, the Political Agent of the Naga Hills, when 

 passing through the village of Jotsomah (also under the Burrail range), 

 but it had been skinned so badly that it was falling all to pieces and 

 the most we could do was to save a few of the better pieces of the 

 skin for the sake of the feathers. The Burrail range is the extreme 

 western limit of this bird, and it has not been got even there, west of 

 the peak of Paona, where the specimen in my collection was obtained by 

 Mr. Wm. Eobert, a most assiduous collector, whom I have to thank for 

 very many good birds. Its haunts are in the dense forest from 6000 to 

 10,000 feet, and this renders it such a difficult bird to bag, and the only 

 chance of shooting a specimen would be by coming upon it suddenly along a 

 more open bit of ridge, or in one of the higher clearings. It was un- 

 known to the Nagas of Asalu. It probably extends some distance to the east- 

 ward until it meets its near ally C. Cahoti. Jerdon was the first to notice it 

 in the ' Ibis' (L870, p. 147) from the Suddya Hills. 



823». Bambusicola Hopkinsoni, nov. sp., Godwin- Austen. 

 ^ Description. Above head plain dull brown, becoming rufous on back of 

 neck, back dull olivaceous grey. Tlie featliers of upper back and scapulars 

 centered with dark chesnut, the secondary coverts more broadly so and termi- 

 nated in black. The feathers of the back have one or more small white spots 

 on the outer margin, giving the back a well-speckled appearance. The 

 rump feathers are indistinctly barred white with a single black spot and in- 

 crease in size to the upper tail-coverts where the spots are conspicuous, heart- 

 shaped with chesnut centres. Quills ruddy chesnut, the secondaries and 

 tertiaries mottled with dark brown. Tail ruddy-brown, feathers narrowly 

 barred with pale ochre having dark mottled edgings. Lores pale buff ex- 

 tending as a supercilium ; ear-coverts, chin, and upper throat pale ferruginous ; 

 a black streak extends from posterior margin of the eye down side of neck ; from 

 lower part of neck for a short distance the feathers are centred rufous with 



