n the valley, together with Toucans:
and Ravens occur as in Assam.

At the village of Kidding there are silkworms fed.

_March 22nd_.--Started at 6 P.M., reached Shelling khet on the Prong
Prongkha in about two hours; it is distant about seven miles. The
village is now deserted. The nullah is small, with a very slow stream;
direction from Kidding nearly S.E. It was at this place that Bayfield
got his specimen of tea, but on enquiry we found that it was brought from
some distance; it is said to grow on a low range of hills. We started
after breakfast, and reached Culleyang, on the same nullah, about 12
o'clock. Total distance thirteen miles; direction S.S.E. Path very
winding. The country traversed is much less open than that of Nempean,
but few Putars occurred; and the whole tract is covered either with tree
or Megala jungle. Water boiled at Shelling khet at 209.5 Fahr. Temp. of
the air 68.5 degrees. Elevation 1340 feet. Noticed but very little
clearing for cultivation, neither did the Putars appear to have been
lately under cultivation.

Culleyang is a village containing about eight houses; it is not
stockaded, and has the usual slovenly appearance of Singpho villages. The
natives keep silkworms, which they feed on the Chykwar or Assam morus,
which they cultivate. I noticed likewise Kanee, or Opium, and Urtica
nivea, which they use for nets; Acanthaceae, Indigofera, and Peach trees.

Close to the village are the burying places of two Singphos. These have
the usual structure of the cemeteries of the tribe, the graves being
covered by a high conical thatched roof. I find from Bayfield, that they
first dry their dead, preserving them in odd shaped coffins, until the
drying process is completed. They then burn the body, afterwards
collecting the ashes, which are finally deposited in the mounds over
which the conical sheds are erected. Between the village and the graves
I saw one of these coffins which, if it contained a full-grown man, must
have admitted the remains in a mutilated shape; and close to this were
the bones of a corpse lately burnt.

To-day I shot the beautiful yellow and black crested Bird we first saw on
the Cossiya hills, _Parus Sultaneus_, and two handsome Birds,
_Orioles_, or _Pastor Traillii_, quite new to me, blackish and bright
crimson, probably allied to the Shrikes.

Of fishes, Cyprinus falcata, or _Nepoora_ of the Assamese, together with
the Sentooree {75} of the Assamese, bot