74' LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR/ 



is normally common anywhere in the hills above 3,500 feet, 

 but I have a specimen from Shillong, and Godwin- Austen also 

 records it from the Khasi hills. 



Throughout British Burmah it is widely and generally dis- 

 tributed, and in all suitable and not too elevated localities is 

 very common. 



210.— Surniculus lugubris, Horsf. 



I shot a single specimen of this in the Eerung valley in 

 the Western hills. I thought I saw another specimen some 

 2,000 feet below Machi in the Eastern hills, but as I did not 

 shoot it it may have been only a young King Crow. On no 

 other occasion, so far as I know, did I observe it in Manipur. 



Male. — Length, 9-9 ; expanse, 15-7 ; tail, 5-1 ; wing, 5-37 ; 

 tarsus, 0-67 ; bill from gape, 1-13 ; weight, l-35oz. 



This species occurs in Northern Sylhet and Cachar, and I 

 have it from numerous localities in the Dibrugarh district. 



[Common in forest in the Dibrugarh district. It has a very 

 harsh note, which it utters only when pursued by any other 

 bird. Irides reddish brown, mouth inside pinkish, legs and feet 

 plumbeous. Of eight adult specimens measured the wings were 

 from 525 to 5-75. A young bird (shot on the 27th June) that 

 had just left the nest had a wing 4 76, irides deep brown, gape 

 and mouth inside orange. — J. R. C] 



Godwin- Austen records two specimens from the North Khasi 

 hills. I have no other record of its occurrence in Assam. 



In British Burmah I only know of its occurrence in the 

 southern half of Tenasserim, Lower Pegu, where it is com- 

 mon, and near Tounghoo, but Eamsay obtained it in Karenee, 

 and Blyth records it from Arakan, whence however I have 

 never seen it. 



211.— Chrysococcyx maculatus, Gm. 



1 shot one specimen of this in the Jhiri valley, a male in 

 incomplete emerald plumage, and measured it, &;c., carefully, 

 but the specimen is not to be found. I never again noticed 

 the bird in Manipur. 



I have it from Northern and N.-E. Cachar and from various 

 localities in the Dibrugarh district. 



[I can give full particulars of many males. They were very 

 common in the Dibrugarh district : — 



