582 Notes on Northern Cachar. [No. 7. 



T. rutila, 803. T. ? pnoe, 819. Anas mail, 500. A. boschas, 653. 

 A. ? vitticeps, 677. Ehynchaspis clypeata, 651, 652. Dafila cauda- 

 cuta, 459, 454. Mareca poecilorhyncha, 792. Querquedula crecca> 

 617, 618. Q. vulgaris, 767. Caligula vulgaris, 373. F. ? cheonea, 

 458. F. nyroca, 648, 649. F. leucophthalmos ? 650. F. caryo. 

 pbyllacea, 664. F. rufina, 686, 822. F. cristafca, 712. Mergus 

 serrator, 626, 627. Cygnus ferus, the wild swan, whereof, strange 

 to say, I procured a sample in the valley of Nepal during a most 

 unusually inclement winter. 



Bodicipedce. Podiceps minor, v. pandubia, 558. P. cristatus, 834. 



Laridce. Xema ridibunda, 566. X. pallida, 857. Sterna rose- 

 ata, 565. 



Belecanidce. Pelecanus gangeticus, 582. P. calirhyncbus, 92. 

 Carbo pygmaeus, 552. C. raptensis, 555. C. javanica ? v. raptensis, 

 559. C. leucocephala, 596. Plotus melanogaster, 655. 



The list consists of 652 species : 89 being Eaptorial ; 407 Passe- 

 rine ; 44 Gallinaceous ; 77 Wading ; and 35 Natatorial Birds. 



Notes . on Northern Cachar. — By Lieut. E. Stewart, 22nd 

 Begt., B. N. I. 



North Cachar, including that portion of the country called Toolaram 

 Sonapaty's, is bounded on the north by the rivers Jumoonah and 

 Hurriahjan, which separate it from the Assam district of Now- 

 gong. On the east the river Dhunseeree, rising among the Burrail 

 mountains and flowing northward, is our frontier with the inde- 

 pendent tribes of Angami and Kutcha Nagas. A huge range of 

 mountains called the Burrail, running directly east and west forms 

 the line of demarkation on the south, with Cachar Proper. And 

 on the west, the Cossilee, and one of its small tributaries called 

 the U'mpung, rising in the Burrail range, and flowing northward, 

 divide it from the Cossiah and Jynteah hill country. 



The form enclosed by these boundaries is that of a rude 

 square, of about 3000 square miles in area: all lying within the 

 water-shed of the Birhampooter, and on its left bank, though 

 removed from the stream toward the uplands. This tract is for the 



