44 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



hills and in N.-E. Cachar. I do not know that it occurs in 

 Sylhet. It occurs in Arakan, Southern and Central Tenasserim 

 and the Karen hills, and Gates records it from near Pegu 

 town and Tounghoo, but I do not yet know of its occurrence 

 elsewhere in Pegu proper, though it is pretty sure to be found 

 all along the evergreen forests of the Pegu Yoma, wherever 

 these are sufficiently dense. 



127.— Pelargopsis gurial, Fears. 



I saw this in the Jhiri valley, and obtained a single specimen 

 far into the Western hills on the Limatak stream, but never 

 saw it in the basin of Manipur nor in the Eastern hills. 



Generally, considering the immense quantity of water about 

 and the abundance of fish, frogs and creeping things, King- 

 fishers of all kinds are uncommonly scarce throughout Manipur. 

 We have this species from many localities in the valley of 

 Assam right up to Dibrugarh, in Sylhet and Cachar right up 

 to the borders of the Naga hills, and Godwin- Austen records 

 it from the Khasi hills. 



[Pretty common m the Dibrugarh district along the banks 

 of all streams. On the 22nd August, 1880, 1 saw one of these 

 birds, with a small fish in its bill, enter a hole it had excavated 

 in the rotten stem of a huge dead " Sappa " {Michelia sp.) 

 tree, about 15 feet off the ground. The tree in felling 

 smashed to pieces and destroyed the young ones. — J. R. C] 



In British Burmah it is replaced by the nearly allied 

 P. hurmanica. 



129. — Halcyon smyrnensis, Lin. 



Never seen either in the Eastern or Western hills, but 

 not rare about the capital or generally in the basin. At the 

 same time one does not anywhere see one-tenth of the number 

 one does in any district in Oudh or the N.-W. Provinces. 



It occurs throughout the valley of Assam,* Sylhet and Cachar, 

 but not, I think, in the hills, except perhaps in some of those 

 low valleys that run far into these. It is common through- 

 out the less elevated portions of British Burmah, but does 

 not occur, I believe, in either the Arakan, Pegu or Tenas- 

 serim hills. 



131. — Halcyon coromanda, Lath. 



I saw this species once in the Jhiri valley ; it started close 

 to me and I saw it as clearly as if I had had it in my hand, and 



* \^Ealci/on smyrnensis, Lin. — Very common in the Dibrugarh district and 

 «een almost every where. On the 27th April, 1881, I fonnd a clutch of four fresh 

 eggs in a hole in a river bank, — J. R, C] 



