JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Part II.— PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 

 No, IV.— 1876. 



XV. — Fifth List of Birds from the Sill Ranges of the North-Bast Fron- 

 tier of India. — By Major H. H. God win- Austen, F. B. G. 8., 

 F. Z. S., Deputy Superintendent Topographical Survey of India. 



(Eecd. September ;— Eead Dec. 6th, 1876.) 

 (With Plates V, VI, & IX.) 

 The present list includes birds principally from the Munipur Hills, 

 obtained by Messrs. Ogle and Eobert in the field season of 1873 — 74, by Mr. 

 A. W. Chennell in the Eastern Naga Hills, and by myself in the Kbasi Hills 

 in 1875. The above-named members of No. 6 Topographical Survey Party 

 deserve not only my best thanks but those of all interested in ornitho- 

 logy for devoting so much of their spare time to this branch of natural 

 history. Mr. Eobert in particular has added a number of new species by 

 his zeal in collecting, and I am glad his name is now associated with one of 

 the most interesting of the birds discovered, viz., a Sphenocichla. All 

 the new forms were described in a joint paper by Viscount Walden (now 

 Marquis of Tweeddale) and myself, published in ' The Ibis' in 1875, but I 

 have given the descriptions again in full. During the past winter (1875 — 

 76), Messrs. Ogle and Chennell have made another collection in the Naga. 

 Hills, and we may therefore expect a few more novelties, as new country on 

 the eastward bas been penetrated and surveyed, and for this purpose many 

 of the higher peaks were ascended and cleared. The people (Nagas) have 

 been most hostile throughout the season, and as it must have been almost 

 impossible for the shikaris to be much about by themselves in the jungle, I 

 do not anticipate a very large collection. 

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