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Arakan, throughout Pegu, and, though rare there, in Tenasserim 

 also. It must occur in Manipur, but I certainly never saw it 

 there. 



Again I never once met with 214&is. — Eudynamis malayana, 

 Cab,, in any part of Manipur. One would think this must 

 occur there, but I never saw or heard it, and long before I left 

 Manipur the nuptial season had commenced, and directly I got 

 back in Cachar I heard the familiar loudly whistled " virho 

 are you " commonly enough. 



The bird is common in Sylhet, Cachar and the Assam valley 

 up as far, at any rate, as Sadiya, and the E. honorata* which 

 Godwin-Austen records from the Khasi hills, must needs have 

 belonged to this species. It is common again in every province 

 of British Burmah in suitable localities, though there, as in 

 the case of the allied species E. honorata, it is in many places 

 mainly a seasonal visitant. 



215.— Rhopodytes tristis, Less. 



Very rare in Manipur, and though my men said they had 

 seen it once or twice in the lower hills, east and west, the 

 only place where I saw and shot it (and then only a single 

 specimen) was in the low-wooded hills east of Phalel. 



It seems to occur all over Assam.f Cachar and Sylhet in 

 suitable localities, wooded hills, and the forests near their bases. 

 I have it from a great number of localities. It is equally 

 generally distributed in British Burmah, except in the extreme 

 south of Tenasserim, to which it does not extend. 



2175wa^.— Centrococcyx intermedius, Hume, 



A Coucal of this type is very common in the basin of 

 Manipur, and though, owing to their rather sneaking habits, 

 no great number are seen, their deep call resounds from 

 morning to night in the spring all over the Manipur level 

 and the bases of the hills that surround this. Inside the hills 

 I do not recollect ever meeting one. 



* [Eudynamis honorata. — As I identify it occurs in Dibrugarh. The Assamese 

 call it " Eoo-lee." 



Length. Expanse, Tail. Wing, Tarsus, Bill from Weight. 



gape. 

 $ ... 170 240 8-10 7-80 1-50 160 7-50oz3. ) Shot in 

 ? ... 16-0 23-50 7-75 7-55 1-50 1-58 7-50ozs. ) September. 



These two birds shot on the same day weigh heavier than E. malayana, vide 

 S. F., II, 194. — J. K. G.] From the dimensions I believe these are malayana.— 

 A. 0. H. 



f [^Rhopodytes tristis, which the Assamese call " Ba-moo-rah," la common in 

 the Dibrugarh district in thin jungle and on roadsides where these are shaded 

 by forest. They feed on beetles, grasshoppers and other insects. — J. R. C] 



