64 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



The bird I did shoot measured : — 



Male. — Length, lO'l ; expanse, 14'5 ; tail, 3'9 ; wing, 505 ; 

 tarsus, 0'84 ; bill from gape, 1*2 ; weight, 2'65ozs. 



Legs and feet dull grass green ; claws brown ; bill white 

 with a bluish tinge, strongest about the base of the lower 

 mandible and nares ; irides dull lac red. 



We have this from the Garo and Khasi hills, from Sadiya, 

 Tippook and other places in the Dibrugarh district, and 

 Godwin- Austen also records it from the Garos and from the 

 Dafla hills. 



In Pegu and Tenasserim it is replaced by 0. viridis, 

 Bly. Neither species, so far as I know, has as yet been sent 

 from Arakan. 



178.— Micropternus phseoceps, Bly. 



Never met with in the Eastern or Western, hills, but I 

 shot two near the capital, and saw it on two or three other 

 occasions in other portions of the basin. 



It is universally spread, though nowhere numerically common 

 throughout the less elevated portions of Assam, Sylhet, 

 Cachar, and British Burmah, except the southernmost 

 portion of Tenasserim, where it is replaced by brachyurus. 



186.— Vivia innominata, Burt. 



I never saw this about the capital or in the central part 

 of the basin, but I met with it at the edges of this along 

 the basis of the hills and both high and low in both 

 the Eastern and Western hills. It is not very common, but 

 still I must have seen a score from first to last. It is very 

 fond of bamboos, amongst which, for so tiny a bird, it makes 

 with its bill a considerable clatter. 



The male differs from the female in having a rather larger 

 bill and brownish red on the forehead, which in the female is 

 uniform with the crown. 



In Assam this seems generally distributed in hills and 

 plains, of course in suitable localities. 



[Far from rare in the Dibrugarh district, and as stated the 

 noise it makes with its bill against the bamboos often draws 

 attention to it. Legs plumbeous, bill the same, tipped black. 



-J. E.G.] 



I have it from N.-E. Cachar, but I do not know whether it 

 occurs elsewhere in Cachar or Sylhet, though it probably does 

 throughout the north of both districts. I have never seen it 



