56 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUB, 



This species is widely and universally distributed through- 

 out Assam,'^ to the extreme eastern outpost, Cachar and Sylhet, 

 alike in hills and plains, and it is equally widely spread 

 throughout British Burmah. 



Godwin- Austen obtained 150. — Palceomis schisticeps, Hodgs., 

 in the Khasi hills, but I have no other record of its occurrence 

 anywhere in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet, and I never met with 

 it in Manipur. It is said to occur in the Arakan hills, but it 

 is doubtful whether it may not rather be the representa- 

 tive species P. ^iisc^i, which replaces schisticeps in Northern 

 and Central Tenasserim and, I believe, in Northern Pegu also. 



153. — Loriculus vernalis, Sparrm. 



Pretty common in the forests east of the Jhiri below the 

 Noongzai-ban ridge, but nowhere else met with in Manipur. 



It is common in Northern and North-Eastern Cachar, 

 and Godwin- Austen records it from the Khasi hills, but I 

 have not received it thence, nor from any other part of 

 Assam, though it is pretty sure to occur there. 



It is generally distributed alike in hills and plains in well- 

 wooded localities throughout British Burmah. 



Godwin- Austen obtained 155. — Picus majoroides, Hodgson, 

 on the Hengdon peak of the Khasi hills, but I have no other 

 record of its occurrence anywhere in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet, 

 and I never met with it in Manipur, where Woodpeckers are 

 on the whole scarce. It does not, so far as we know, extend 

 to- any part of British Burmah. 



1556«s.— Picus manderinus, Gould. 



This, or a variety,-|- was obtained by Mr. Roberts at Gong- 

 long in the Manipur hills, and must therefore be included 

 in our list, but I never met with it, and I may note that, except 

 Picus macii, which is common in the valley, Woodpeckers 

 are scarcer in Manipur than in any other region I have ever 

 worked. 



This species has never been procured anywhere in Assam, 

 Cachar or British Burmah. 



* l_Pal(eornis fasciatus \a very common ia the Dibrugarh district indeed. 

 Enormous flocks of them are seen morning and evening flying high overhead 

 to and from their feeding grounds. In the morning they go east and retura 

 before dusk, roosting, I should say, in the hills. I have, however, in June 

 found a nest with two young birds in the garden. — J. R, C] 



■j- For Godwin-Austen's full description of Mr. Roberts' specimen, and hia 

 view of the difEereaces between the Manipur and Chinese apecimens, vide 

 S. F., V, 53. 



