52 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



I have specimens of this species both from N.-E. Cachar and 

 from several localities in the Dibrugarh district. 



[Very common in the Dibrugarh district, even venturing 

 amongst thin forest in cultivation. The Assamese call them 

 " Hay-tuh, teh-ee." 



Legs and feet plumbeous, irides brownish red, mouth inside 

 black, claws horny brown, naked facial skin sickly white, bill 

 yellowish white, and black base of lower mandible reddish 

 brown. Occask)nally small parties of six and eight are met with. 

 Permanent residents. — J. R. C] 



In both the Garo and Khasi hills it is the much larger affinis 

 (vide S. F., VI, 102) that alone occurs, and it is clearly to this 

 species that Godwin-Austen refers under the name of H. 

 foroTiaia when he says he shot a pair in the West Khasi hills, 

 west of Pudrugru. Throughout British Burmah this species 

 is common in suitable localities alike in plains and hills. 



In tlie forest half way up the Noongzai-ban ridge I saw a 

 party of moderate-sized Hornbills, rather bulkier birds than 

 albirostris, but with smaller bills, apparently without casques. 

 I could not get near them ; they only took short flights, but 

 they kept high up and would never let me get nearer than 

 about 200 yards. Examining them with binoculars from this 

 or a little greater distance they appeared much the colour of 

 Ocyceros birostris, Scop., but somewhat darker, and when 

 they flew their wings were much darker and showed a 

 good deal of pure white. Personally I have no doubt that 

 these birds belonged to that now lost species {vide S. F., VII, 

 167, 499) 144^er. — Anorhinus austeni, the type of which came 

 from the North Cachar hills, of which the Noongzai-ban ridge 

 is one of the continuations. 



Godwin-Austen obtained 146. — Aceros nipalensis, Hodgs., in 

 the Khasi hills, but I do not know of its occurrence in any 

 other part of Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, and I never saw nor 

 heard of it in Manipur. At the same time Blyth records it, 

 I know not on what authority, from Manipur and Cachar. In 

 British Burmah I only know of it in the higher mountains of 

 Central Tenasserim. 



1465^5. — Ehyticeros undulatus, Shaw. 



This species was excessively common, on the Noongzai-ban 

 ridge early in February, when I shot a pair, but not one was 

 seen there on the return journey early in June. 



