68 LIST >jj SZr.I'S ES" ilA>TPUR, 



This is quite correct. Every Maniptir bird (and I ahofr some- 

 thing like 50) siiows this paich distiaetly, whereas not 

 above one in three Himalayan specimens exhibit even a trace 

 of it. In Calcutta and Dacca birds, however, most show a 

 trace of it, and here and there one shows it distinctly. 



Moreover, in the Manipnr birds, the pale glistening straw 

 ydlow band, dividing the red forehead from the black coro- 

 nal band, is broader and brighter than in any Indian 

 spedmens; the black coronal band is narrower, and the 

 colonzs, both bine and green, are somewhat brighter and 

 pnrer. Bat Dacca, Cachar and Sylhet birds bridge over all 

 these sBght differences, and there is no ground fc* separating 

 the ATanip rrr and Aspam hill birds. 



This species ab^amis thronghonC Assam,* Sylhet and Cachar, 

 alike in bills and plains, np to elevations of 3,500 or 4,000 feet. 

 It occois also in the Arakan hills and the h ill s and adjacent 

 fofest tiaets in P^n and Xorthem Tenasserim. Furrher 

 sooth in Sottthem Tenasserim it is replaced by the allied 

 M. davisoni, nobis. 



196.— Megalsema franklini, BIy. 



Yerv c»Dmm;>:2. in :^e Eastern hills, where I sli0& nombas, 

 bat strange to say never noriced in the Western hiUs, thongh 

 it has a perfectly distinct and characteristic calL This call 

 heard from a distance is " Wy-u, Wy-u, Wy-u^ but when 

 one is close to the bird it sounds like "^ Kok vry-ii, Kok icy- 

 u" &CL, the first syllable being lower in pitch and having less 

 resonance. It is not found, so far as I have observed, much 

 below 3,500 feet elevation ia the Manipor hills. 



The following are the dimensions and other particulars 

 of some I measured : — 



(I can't imagine why I measured no females, but I didn't.) 

 L^s and feet duU to pale leaden, overlaid with a strong 

 green (varying from dull to grass green) shade, strongest on 

 feet, where in some it entirely obscores ^»e leaden tint below ; 

 daws du^y lead^i ; IhII Uack, white or bluish white at gape 

 and base of lower numdiUe ; irides rich chocolate Iwown to 

 brownish red, 



• [IbgrnUema asitiiiat is very eomMoa eTcrywiiera ia Dibrugarii. T^ 

 call u - ' Hsj-uw-Ioo-ka." — J. &. C] 



