Arboricola atrogularis, Blyth.
VernacularMamCS-[Pcura, Sytkets Dilboy, 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 Kakhycn 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 f r i nm
writes to me This species is common i n ^ y l h e " r Z v
are found on all the hillocky ground that is covered with
dense forest They are very fond of feeding about the bants
of the small rivulets that meander among the hillocks which
are scattered about the district. They feed on inse ts° for which