42 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



from N.-E, Cachar, I have it also from various localities, and 

 it is generally distributed, in Arakan, Pegu and Northern and 

 Central Tenasserim. It is preferentially a hill or broken- 

 ground forest bird, but may also be found in good forests in 

 the level country. 



It is to be noted that I never met with any true Bee-eater 

 within the limits of Manipur. 



117- — M. viridis, Lin., was pretty common in Sylhet 

 and Cachar right up to the Jhiri, but across that river I never 

 saw it, though it may occur as a straggler in the low land 

 between the Jhiri and Noongzai-ban, which ornithologically 

 belongs rather to Cachar than Manipur. I have specimens 

 from the extreme north-east of Cachar, and Godwin- Austen has 

 recorded it from the Khasi and near the Dafla hills, but I 

 have no other record of it from Assam as yet. 



Throughout British Burmah it is common. 



118. — M. philippinus, Lin., again I have from N.-E. 

 Cachar, from Sadiya and several other places in the 

 Dibrugarh district, and it occurs, broadly speaking, throughout 

 British Burmah in suitable localities. 



[Very common in the Dibrugarh district during the rains, 

 when it is found all over the district. They arrive about the 

 beginning of June. Ass. Jeea-kha-tee. — J. R. C] 



119. — M. Swinhoii, Hurae. Lastly I have this species from 

 N.-E. Cachar, and from Sadiya and from various localities in all 

 three provinces of British Burmah. 



It does seem passing strange that, coming down, as all three 

 do, to the very border of Manipur, I should yet never once 

 have met with either of them within Manipur limits. That 

 they tnust occur, if only as stragglers, in the Jhiri valley seems 

 certain. Whether they occur further east in Manipur future 

 enquiries must decide. 



122.— Nyctiornis athertoni, Jard. & Selhy. 



I myself only saw a single bird of this species in Manipur, 

 and that was in the low level forest between the Jhiri and 

 Noongzai-ban ; but one of my collectors, an intelligent man 

 who knows the bird well and has skinned scores, affirmed that 

 he saw it one day in the Eastern hills and shot at it when 

 it was in the act of calling. It may be so. I give it for what 

 it is worth, but I have my doubts, because he declared that 

 it was uttering a particular note " Hoot-Hoot, Toot-Toot," 

 that we constantly heard in the Eastern hills, but the emitter 

 of which we could never certainly trace. Now, according to 

 my remembrance, this is not a bit the note of Nyctiornis 



