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Arboricola atrogularis, Blyth. 



Vernacular NaBl©S— [Peura,i>/^^; Duboy, Dubore, E. Assam; San-batai, 



Chittagong] 



ROM Sadiya, our most easterly station in Assam 

 (where it is very common), this species seems to 

 extend throughout the low hills and dense forests 

 on the southern banks of the Brahmaputra as far 

 as the western slopes of the Garo Hills. Thence 

 it occurs in suitable localities in Cachar, Sylhet, 

 Tipperah and Hill Tipperah, and, Mr. Fasson tells me, 

 in Chittagong also. From all the localities specified, except 

 the last, I have received specimens. 



Godwin- Austen obtained it in the Tura Range of the Garos. 

 But we have no knowledge as yet of its occurrence in the 

 Khasi or Naga Hills. 



It has never been recorded from any locality north or west 

 of the Brahmaputra and Megna, nor does it, I believe, extend 

 to Aracan, though Blyth, who originally considered intermedins 

 the female of this species, under this misapprehension 

 stated (J. A. S. B., 1849, p. 819) that he had seen dozens 

 thence. 



Dr. Anderson procured it in the Kakhyen Hills, east of 

 Bhamo, and it may very probably occur in the upper portions 

 of Independent Burma contiguous to our Assam frontiers ; 

 but we know nothing of this region, and as yet this species 

 has not been observed anywhere outside our limits except in 

 these Kakhyen Hills. 



I HAVE never seen this species wild. My friend Mr. Cripps 

 writes to me : — " This species is common in Sylhet, where they 

 are found on all the hillocky ground that is covered with 

 dense forest. They are very fond of feeding about the banks 

 of the small rivulets that meander among the hillocks which 

 are scattered about the district. They feed on insects, for which 



