264 [No. 3, 



Second List of Birds obtained in the Khasi and North Cachar 

 Hill ranges, including the Garo Hills and Country at their 



base in the mymensing and sylhet districts, hf/ major h. 



H. Godwin-Austen) F. E. G. S., Deputy Superintendent 

 Topographical Survey of India. 



[Received 23rd June, 1870 j read 6th July, 1870.] 

 During the past field season (1869-70) I have been able to 

 make another collection of birds from the above hills. It includes 

 some 148 species, and forms an addition to the list, lately published 

 in this Journal (see p. 91). The greater number of the birds were 

 collected upon the southern base of the Khasi and Garo Hills, and in 

 the Garo Hills themselves ; it contains, therefore, fewer novelties, and 

 the species are for the most part well known ; especially is this the 

 case with the Grallatores, nearly all from the beels of Sylhet and 

 Mymensing. We find here the same species as are to be got to the 

 west of the Brahmaputra ; nevertheless I have recorded every bird, 

 whether common or not, shot by my assistants, the collector, or 

 myself, and only these have been brought into the list, thus many 

 very common birds do not appear in it at all. Those enumerated 

 have been identified in "Jerclon's Birds of India," or compared 

 with the collection in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, with B 1 y t h ' s 

 descriptions in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, &c. 



For a few birds, obtained on the north Cachar side, I am 

 indebted to Mr. W. E o b e r t, Assistant Surveyor, who, I am 

 glad to say, has commenced to form a collection of his own, and 

 who will I trust add many more and new birds to the present list. A 

 Surveyor has fine opportunities afforded him of forming a collection 

 in any section of Natural History, and if he only carry on this work 

 for several years, must make this a very valuable and complete one, 

 for he visits every kind of ground at successive elevations. Thus 

 Mr. N. A. Belletty has added many birds that I did not ob- 

 tain or see myself, and in the same way, Mrs. Belletty, remain- 

 ing at the Head Quarter Camp, added a number brought in by a 

 collector, and identified the same as well as a great number sent in 

 by myself and those working in the hills. I have every hope that 



