40 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



characterises macrurus. The female is exceptionally small, and 

 shows hardly any dark breast, being precisely similar to the 

 Malewoon and Pulo Seban females mentioned at the bottom of 

 page 58, Vol. VI. 



I saw no other specimens in Manipur, nor did I ever else- 

 where hear their call. 



In the freshly-killed bird there are three very conspicu- 

 ous white or pale bands on the wing formed by the tips of the 

 greater median and longest lesser coverts of the secondaries 

 and tertiaries. In skins these are scarcely noticeable. 



I have this species from N.-E. Cachar and from near 

 Dibrugarh,* and I strongly suspect that the birds entered by 

 G. Austen as albonotatus from the Garo hills would prove to 

 belong to this form as defined in S. F., VI, 58. 



It is very doubtful, however, whether the two should not be 

 treated as one species (vide loc. cit sup.). Throughout British 

 Burmah it is of course common. 



114.— Caprimulgus monticolus, FranhL 



I twice flushed this species when beating the low scrub- 

 clad bases of the Eastern hills, just above where they rise out 

 of the basin, and these were the only specimens I got or saw, 

 and I never once heard at night their familiar call. It is 

 certainly extraordinary how rare as a whole Goat Suckers 

 are throughout Manipur. 



I have this species from N.-E. Cachar.. Godwin- Austen records 

 it from the Garo hills, but this is all I know of its occurrence 

 in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. It occurs in Northern and Central 

 Tenasserim, and in Arakan, and perhaps in the extreme north- 

 east of Pegu. 



114&^s.— Lyncornis cerviniceps, Gould. 



One evening that we spent in the Jhiri valley, a number of 

 this species passed over, flying northwards. I saw the first soon 

 after sunset, but they were out of shot, and I got no speci- 

 men ; still the large size, colour and peculiar whistled call left 

 no possible doubt as to the species. I never again saw or 

 heard them in Manipur, but they certainly occur in the 

 Eastern hills, as a Naga not only described them well, but 

 two days later brought me a tail of one from some other 

 village. 



We have specimens precisely identical with Burmese ones 

 both from N.-E. Cachar and from Khowang near Dibru- 

 garh, but from nowhere else as yet in Assam, but, as it has 



* \_Odprimulgus macrurus, Horsf. — Very commou ia Dibrugarh. The Aaaaiiiese 

 call lUeiu Koor-Koorea- Hoodoo, — J, U. C] 



