﻿17G Godwin- Austen— Foicrth list of Birds from the [No. 3, 



955. Casaeca leucoptera, Blytli. 

 I got this bird at Dimapur on tlie Bunsiri River ; it appears to prefer 

 sluggish streams like this flowing through forest, for I once flushed this bird 

 in such a haunt in the interior of the Garo Hills. I am informed by 

 Mr. James of the Police at Samaguting that it breeds on the Dunsiri, and 

 that he had shot the young birds. It is called the " Deo Hans" in Assam. 

 Mr. J. Burt of Tezpur informs me that the white-winged Sheldrake perches 

 on trees, and that one was killed thus sitting by Mr. J. Martin of Pani- 

 puta Tea plantation near Tezpur. 



The habits and haunts of this species are as completely the reverse of 

 its congeners rutila &c. as they well can be. 



962. Dafila acuta, Lin. 

 Tolerably abundant on the Beels in Munipur, in February. 



963. Matieca PENELOPE, Linn. 

 Very numerous in Munipur, in February. 



971. FuLiGULA ciiiSTATA, Ray. 

 Munipur, on the Lamphel. 



975. PoDicEPS Philippensis, Gmelin. 

 Beels, Munipur, 



Anas 'pcBcilorlujnclia, Pennant was a very common duck on the Logtak 

 Lake, in February. I have nowhere seen it so numerous. 



General notes on other species. 

 The specimens of Mpliialtes that I have hitherto procured in the Naga 

 Hills and Asalu, are undoubtedly lempigi, Horsfield, like birds from Java, 

 &c., of which the very rufous one mentioned in my first list is in that parti- 

 cular phase of plumage. 



Micropternus phaioceps, Blyth. 

 I have two specimens in xnj possession, one of which is from the Tip- 

 perah Hills, the other from Dimapur, Assam ; both are much darker and 

 much more distinctly barred on back than others, and have at the same time 

 stronger bills ; and both are smeared all over the head, tail, and feet with 

 some dark gummy substance that they are evidently fond of getting into. 



Cyanops Asiatica, Lath. 



I notice that all the specimens in my collection from these Eastern 



Hills, have a small triangular patch of scarlet (0*3" wide) at the gape, 



a point not noticed in any description I can find, nor is it shewn in 



the figure of this species in ** The Marshalls' " monograph of the Barbets, 



