62 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



Another species which I never saw, though it is sure to occur 

 in Manipur if only in theJhiri valley, is 171. — Gecinus striolatus, 

 Bly. I have this from N.-E. Cachar and the Khasi hills, and 

 Godwin- Austen records it apparently from the E. Naga hills 

 and again from the Terai under the Dafla hills and near Dekrang 

 Mukh. I have no other record of its occurrence in Assam, 

 Cachar or Sylhet. It seems common in the northern half of 

 Pegu, and has occurred in Tenasserim, but only in the 

 extreme north. I do not know that it has as yet been procured 

 in Arakan. 



172.— Gecinus occipitalis, Vig. 



I obtained a pair half way up the Noongzai-ban ridge, and 

 I saw it once in the Eastern hills, but failed to secure it. 



It occurs in suitable localities atone season or another 

 throughout Assam (I might say hills and plains, but that I have 

 no record of its occurrence in the Naga hills), and alike in 

 Northern Sylhet and Northern Cachar. 



[Common in the Dibrugarh district ; this species is often 

 seen quite at the base of trees, and I have seen it even on the 

 ground at the root of a tree ; affects thinly-wooded country 

 more than forest. Breeds in May ; its nest hole is never far 

 off the ground, in one case only 4 feet ; its call I have never 

 heard.— J. R. C] 



It is pretty generally distributed throughout British Burmah^ 

 not however extending in Tenasserim as far south as Mergui. 



Another species probably occurs in Manipur — 173,— 

 Chrysophlegraa jlavinucha, Gould., but I never met with it. 



I have it however from N.-E. Cachar close to the boundary 

 of Manipur, and Godwin- Austen records it from the Khasi hills, 

 but as yet these are the only localities from whence I have it 

 recorded in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet. 



In Burmah we have it from Arakan, Northern and Central 

 Pegu and Northern and Central Tenasserim. 



174.— Ohrysophlegma chlorolophus, Vieilh 



I shot two females of this species at Aimole in the Eastern 

 hills, but never met with it elsewhere. It is certain to occur 

 in the Western hills also, but as I said before Woodpeckers 

 are so thinly distributed in Manipur that a very prolonged 

 and close search will be necessary before one can say positively 

 what does not occur in any locality. 



I have this species from N.-E. Cachar, from Sadiya, anxi 

 a dozen different places in the Dibrugarh district, where, Cripps 

 says, they lay in tfune, and Godwin- Austen gives it from the 



