38 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



a mere pad like others I have had sent me from Travancore 

 and Sikhim, or like the one figured by Hodgson) composed 

 externally of leaves and twigs and lined with fine hair-like 

 flower stems of flowery grass. The nest was placed against 

 the trunk of a small tree, say, 30 feet high at the junction with 

 this of a bough about 3 inches in diameter and at a height 

 of about 9 feet from the ground. The tree was situated in 

 thin secondary forest on one of the low hills below Aimole, 

 at a height of about 600 feet above the basin or, say, 3,100 

 above sea level. The nest contained one white egg, unfortu-' 

 nately smashed by the bird in its struggles when it found itself 

 snared, and one just hatched young one. 



The Nagas seemed to have no real knowledge of its habits 

 or notes, though they have a distinct name for it, calling it 

 Soombong, while they call all Goat Suckers Wapputshai. 

 Many said it was purely nocturnal and very seldom seen ; 

 others that it also flew at times by day ; all agreed that it was 

 extremely rare. 



This was the only specimen I obtained or saw in Manipur, 

 and, except Butler's specimen from the Naga hills, I have no 

 record of its occurrence anywhere else in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar, though it doubtless will prove to occur throughout 

 the hills. 



Ramsay obtained a male of this species in Karenee at an 

 elevation of about 6,000 feet, and Col. Tickell obtained a 

 rufous Frogmouth (hence as we now know a female), probably 

 belonging to this species somewhere near Tounghoo. The only 

 Frogmouth I have from Tenasserim belongs to the much 

 smaller, browner collarless affunis {vide S. F., IX, p. 14«9). 



107625. —Caprimulgusjotaka, Tem. Sj- Schl. (Naga — 

 Wapputshai; all Goat Suckers.) 



Goat Suckers are very scarce in Manipur, and one not only 

 hardly ever sees them, but very seldom even hears them. 



Of the birds we call jotaJca I only procured two specimens ; 

 both I shot after dark in the Eastern hills — one at Aimole and 

 the other at Machi — being attracted by their call. This was 

 the only species I hem^d in either the Eastern or Western hills. 



I class them as jotaka, though they are very small for this 

 species, partly because of their rich intense plumage and partly 

 because their note " chick," " chick," " chick," repeated six or 

 seven times in rapid succession, is recognisably distinct from 

 that of indicus. 



The male has the wing 7"9 ; the female measured in the . 

 flesh is smaller still. 



Length, 10-6; expanse, 226; tail, 5*2; wing, 767; tarsus 



