I never met with this in either the Eastern or Western hills, except in the Kopum Thull, a level basin some old lake's bed, precisely analogous to the Manipur level. Throughout this latter it was generally distributed in suitable localities, it being essentially a bird of swamps and jheels, wet ditches or flooded land, where there is high grass or scrub to creep about in; for these birds are great skulks, never, apparently, willingly showing themselves, except perhaps in the early mornings and towards evening, when they will rarely mount to the summit of some lofty grass stem and twitter out their little feeble song, as a rule creeping about through the hedges and long grass near the ground, so that one rarely knows what they are till one has shot them.