. Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies . from Cachar. Ihave it also from Joonkotollee in the Dibrugarh district, andknow of its occurrence in most of the districts of Assam. ASSAM, SYLHET AND CACHAR. 353 [Common all over Dibrugarh in all the paddy fields, road-side cuttings, and pools of water.—J. R. C] It is common throughout every province of BritishBurmah. 1008.—Plotus melanogaster, Penn. This species seems very scarce in Manipur. There werea few about the Logtak lake, and I saw one in a streamrunning into the Jhiri river, just inside the Manipur front
. Stray feathers. Journal of ornithology for India and its dependencies . from Cachar. Ihave it also from Joonkotollee in the Dibrugarh district, andknow of its occurrence in most of the districts of Assam. ASSAM, SYLHET AND CACHAR. 353 [Common all over Dibrugarh in all the paddy fields, road-side cuttings, and pools of water.—J. R. C] It is common throughout every province of BritishBurmah. 1008.—Plotus melanogaster, Penn. This species seems very scarce in Manipur. There werea few about the Logtak lake, and I saw one in a streamrunning into the Jhiri river, just inside the Manipur frontier,but these were the only occasions on which I met with it inthat State. It occurs in both Sylhet and Cachar, but I have no recordof its occurrence in Assam. It is more or less common in suitable localities throughoutevery part of British Burmah. (Kont^juts* The Birds of Manipur, Assam, Sylhet axd Cachar— iNTllODUCTIOISr, Pt. I. Detailed List of Species observed in Manipur, togetherwith notices of all other species observed ixAssam, Svlhet and Cachar ,,. London, 15 Pieeadilly, 1899 VALUABLE WORKS ON NATURAL HISTORY ■OFFERED BY BEENAED QUAEITOH Just ready: A GRAND SCIENTIFIC WORK ON THE ZOOLOO-^rT OF ■E]a-iri=^T . VOLUME FIRST . REPTILIAand BATBACHIA Et JOHN ANDERSON, , , One volume, royal 4to. Ixv and 372 pp. of Text, with woodcuts. Map ofEgypt, Nubia, and the Sudan, seven Illustrations of physical featuresin Introduction, 41 coloured and 11 uncoloured plates of Rejotiles andBatrachians, cloth, uncut 1898 Price, £12. 12 s. 100 copies printed, only 90 for sale. Purchsiseis of the above do not bind themselves to take further volumes, but they will havethe privilege of securing them if so inclined. The first step towards the preparation of this volume was the formation of a collection ofthe Keptiles and the Batrachians of Egypt. This was an absolute necessity, as these groupswere evidently so poorly represented in the Museums of this country and
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