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It has to be noted that I nowhere in Manipur met with 

 either 76. — Carine brania, Tern., or its northern Peguan 

 representative 76quat — Carine pulchra, Hume. I found the 

 former common in Cachar,and have received it from N.-E.Cachar 

 on the very borders of Manipur. Godwin- Austen obtained it 

 in the Khasi hills. It must needs occur, I should fancy, in the 

 north-western and northern portions of Manipur if nowhere else, 

 but I never obtained a glimpse of it, never even heard its 

 chattering whisper, in any portion of the state I visited. 



79. — Glaucidium cuculoides, Vig. 



This species is very common throughout the Western hills, 

 where I saw numbers, not a few, sitting out on low bare 

 branches of trees or on dry stumps in the broad, hot, midday 

 sunlight ; but in the basin I never saw it, nor did we ever 

 meet with it or hear it in the Southern or Eastern hills, and I 

 do not think it extends to these latter. Its chuckling, vibrating 

 call is very distinct and easily recognized. 



This species occurs in the Garo, Khasi and Naga hills, and 

 I have it from N.-E. Cachar and several localities (JoonkotoUee, 

 Khowang, Tippook) in the neighbourhood of Dibrugarh, 



[Very common in the Dibrugarh district, and very noisy. 

 For a nocturnal bird it is astonishing how long it keeps out in 

 a blazing sun ; only last December I saw a pair at 11 A-M. 

 basking in the sun on the Burmese Pagoda, in the Eden 

 Gardens at Calcutta. They feed on earthworms occasionally. — 

 J. R. C.] 



Again it is common in suitable localities throughout British 

 Burmah, so that its absence from the eastern Manipur hills 

 is, to say the least, unexpected. 



80. — Glaucidium brodii, JBuri. 



Unknown in the basin, rare in the Western, common in the 

 Eastern hills. 



Of course, as remarked by Sharpe, Athene minutilla of Gould 

 (B. of Asia, XXII, pi. 4, text) from Assam is only the young of 

 G. brodii, for which I had long previously proposed (Rough 

 Notes, p. 420) the name inimaculatus. I have specimens of the 

 unbarred youthful form from Simla, Sikhim and Manipur all 

 precisely alike. 



The bird varies much in size, and the wings run from 3*1 to 

 8*9. That this is an individual difference and not due to age 

 is clear from the fact that the very smallest bird is a perfect 

 adult, while the type of my supposed inimaculatus has the 

 wing 3-8. It. is a female no doubt, but then I have adult 

 females with the wing only 3 6. 



