54 . LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUE, 



very high up as a rule. Assamese call them Mah-doh-la. They 

 are not very rare in Dibrugarh, though very rarely to be shot. — 

 J. K C] 



It occurs in the southern half of Tenasserim and in Arakan, 

 and a single specimen is said to have been obtained at 

 Tounghoo. 



14:7qiiat. — Palseornis indoburmanicus, Hume. (S. F., 

 VII, p. 458.) 



I met with a single flock of this species in the low-lying 

 forests of the Jhiri valley, but saw it nowhere else in Manipur. 



In Cachar I found it very common at the end of January, 

 shooting it both in the station, at Lakhipur and close to the 

 Jhiri itself. Mr. Inglis has also sent it from a little further 

 north in Cachar. It has been sent also from Northern Sylhet 

 and the South Khasi hills near Cherrapoonjee, and Godwin- 

 Austen records it from the North Khasi hills, but I have not 

 yet received it from the Dibrugarh district or indeed any part 

 of the Assam valley. It occurs in Pegu in all suitable 

 localities from Thayetmyo to Elephant Point and in Northern 

 and Central Tenasserim, but not in the southernmost parts 

 of that province, while from Arakan, though it doubtless 

 occurs there, I have as yet no record of its having been 

 procured. Blyth says that in Burmah this is a mountain 

 species, chiefly or wholly confined to the loftier elevations. 

 This is totally wrong ; it don't like hilly country and never 

 ascends the higher mountains. 



118. — Palseornis torquatus, Bodd. 



This species was common in the Jhiri valley in February, 

 but was seen nowhere else in Manipur. 



It is found in Sylhet and Cachar and throughout the valley 

 of Assam right up to Sadiya,* but I have not received it, nor 

 does it seem to have been recorded from either the Garo, 

 Khasi or Naga hills ; indeed, it is a plains species. 



It occurs in Arakan and throughout Pegu in all suitable 

 localities, and Wardlaw Ramsay once met with it on the lower 

 slopes of the Karen hills, but I do not think it occurs in any 

 part of Tenasserim proper. 



* \^Falesornis (orquatus is very common everywhere in the Dibrugarh district 

 and is a permanent resident. During the ripening of tlie Indian corn they 

 commit great depredations amongst the crop. They lay in June in holes in trees. — 

 J. R. C] 



