48 LIST OF BIKDS IN MANIPUB, 



rarity in Manipur be accounted for ? Is the elevation too 

 great for it ? 



137.— Ceryle guttata, Vig. 



I saw this often in the Western hills ; indeed it is by no> 

 means scarce on either the Eerung or the Limatak, but it was on 

 all occasions so excessively wary that I never succeeded in 

 getting a shot at it. Again I twice saw it in the Eastern hills^ 

 and at last shot a single specimen near the bases of these not 

 far from Phalel. A dozen times I had been after them in vain, 

 but on this occasion, as, in a pelting shower, I stood under a 

 tree on the bank of a stream, one came dashing up stream 

 within 20 yards of me, and I dropped it. 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar and from near Sadiya, and 

 Godwin- Austen records it from the Dekrang, and again from 

 Tenga Pani and the Dehing, and I know of its occurrence in 

 the Naga hills. It is of course a hill bird everywhere and 

 never strays far, I believe, beyond the bases of these. 



[I saw a few specimens of this bird in the " Dehing " river 

 below Beesah. The river there is rather broad, with a sandy 

 bottom, the hills being about five to ten miles off. They would 

 dash past our boats well out of range, and were the cause of 

 a deal of ammunition being wasted. — J. R. C] 



It is not very rare in the Kill streams of Northern and Central 

 Tenasserim, but I seem to have no record of it as yet from either 

 the Pegu or Arakan Yoma. 



138.— Psarisomus dalhousiae, Jam.. 



This beautiful species was very common in the high forest 

 of the low level between the Jhiri and Noongzai-ban. They 

 were flying about in flocks from tree top to tree top, often 

 quite out of shot, looking exactly like small Parakeets or 

 Paroquets, whichever may be the right way of spelling it. 



I saw a few again in the Eerung valley. Of course there 

 were none in the basin ; they are essentially forest birds, but I 

 again met with them at Aimole in the Eastern hills. 



The following are particulars of a pair : — 



Tarsus. Bill from fape. Weight. 

 1-0 1*22 2ozs. 



0-92 1-27 2110ZS. 



JfaZe.— Legs and feet pale leaden grey, overlaid with green ^ 

 upper mandible bright green, bluish white at tip, dark blue 

 about nares ; lower mandible chrome yellow, green at base 

 and tip and with the extreme tip bluish white ; irides dull 

 hazel ; eyelids intense yellow. 



