72 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



In Pegu and Northern and Central Tenasserim it seems to 

 be not uncommon ; Davison considered it rare in the latter 

 province, but Bingham found it by no means rare in the 

 Thoungyeen valley. From Arakan it has not been recorded. 



206.— Hierococcyx nisicolor, Hodga. 



I shot one specimen (a young male with the wing 7*0) of 

 this rare species on the 6th of April at Kokshin Koolel in the 

 southern portion of the basin, not far from the bases of the 

 Eastern hills. 



A single specimen from the Khasi hills is the only record 

 I have of the occurrence of this species anywhere in Assam, 

 Cachar or Sylhet. 



Similarly from British Burmah I know only of a single 

 specimen from Thatone in Tenasserim, and a couple of speci- 

 mens from North-East and South-East Pegu respectively. 



207.— Hierococcyx sparveroides, Vig. 



Seen once or twice in the Western hills, but much more 

 common in the Eastern ones. In the basin I did not see it ; 

 indeed I do not think I met with it anywhere below 4,000 feet. 



It is common in the Assam hills, and Godwin- Austen gives 

 it from the Dekrang valley in his Dafla Hill List. I have it 

 also from N.-E. Cachar, but not as yet from the Dibrugarh 

 district or elsewhere. 



[Far from rare, however, in the Dibrugarh district. I used 

 often to see them about tea gardens and villages. Three males 

 measured :— Length, 1610 to 16-25 ; expanse, 24-50 to 26-20 ; 

 tail, 7-60 to 9-0 ; wing, 90 to 9*70 ; tarsus, I'lO ; bill from 

 gape, 1'38 to 1-42; weight, 5'75 to 6oOozs. Irides dusky 

 yellow and orange in the fully adult bird. — J. K C] 



In British Burmah it is generally distributed throughout 

 Arakan, Pegu and all but the southern portions of Tenasserim, 

 but while common in some places, chiefly the higher hills, it 

 is rare in others, especially in the plains. 



209. — Oacomantis threnodes, Cah. 



This species was very abundant in the Manipur basin, but 

 I met with it nowhere in the hills. They are birds of a very 

 sneaking, slouching habit, dodging about in the brushwood, 

 bushes and low trees. 



It is a remarkable fact that out of 27 specimens preserved 

 only three are females. 



The conspicuous white band on the lower surface of the 

 wing in adults, due to the basal inch or nearly this of the 



