20 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



Our Manipur bird with a wing 14"5 is no doubt newarense, 

 but it has still to be noticed that, while the culmen, band and 

 supercilium is white, the face is more tinged with ferruginous 

 buff than in any Himalayan example i have seen, while the 

 barring is nearly obsolete. 



I have received this species from near Shillong, and 

 believe that it occurs throughout the Garo, Khasi and 

 Naga hills. 



I once received a specimen said to have been procured in 

 the Arakan hills, but I regard this now as doubtful, and I 

 have no other reliable record of its occurrence in Burmah, 

 where, in Southern Pegu and Southern and Central Tenas- 

 serim, it is replaced by S. seloputo. 



68.— Asio accipitrinus, Pall. 



Found only once within Manipur limits, in the same dry 

 grass in the Kopum Thull in which Strix Candida occurred. 



Mr. Inglis has sent it to me from N.-E. Cachar, but it does 

 not seem to have been procured from anywhere else as yet in 

 Assam, Cachar or Sylhet. 



[One specimen, a female, shot in November, 1880, in the 

 Dibruararh district amongst the tea bushes, liad eaten a rat. — 

 J. R. C] 



It has been procured in the extreme north of Tenasserim, 

 and Blyth records it from Arakan ; it doubtless occurs in 

 Northern Pegu also, but the fact does not seem to have been 

 ascertained as yet. 



It has to be noted that I never saw or heard of 70. — Bubo 

 coromandus, though this occurs in the north Khasi hills, and I 

 believe in the valley of Assam. 



71. — Bubo nipalensis, Hodgs. 



I never myself obtained or saw this, but I examined a flat 

 skin of one which was killed in the northern Manipur hills, 

 and the Tankuls of Hoondong, in the Eastern hills, knew 

 the bird and said that it was occasionally seen in their 



forests. 



A little further north Godwin-Austen obtained it from the 

 Naga hills, and again in the Darrang district of the Assam 

 valley. 



[The only specimen I handled during my residence in the 

 Dibrugarh district was one sent me alive by my friend Mr. S. E. 

 Peal, who shot it whilst calling on a tree near his bungalow 

 one moonlight night in February, 1883. It was a ^ _and 

 measured :— Length, 23-50 ; expanse, 600 ; tail, 9-50 ; wings, 

 17-25 ; tarsus, '20 ; bill from gape, 2^20 ; weight, 5-2oz. Irides 



