78 LIST OF birds: IN MANIPUR, 



Now this Coucal is not true intermedins ; it is too large, and 

 especially the bill runs larger. 



I measured in the flesh the finest specimen, a female, that I 

 came across. It measured: — Length, 21"0 ; expanse, 25"5 ; 

 tail, 10 '8 ; wing. 9'0; tarsus, 2-62; bill from gape, 1"89 ; 

 weight, 14ozs. ; hind toe and claw, I'S; claw only, 1'2. 



Bill, leg, feet and claws black ; soles hoary dusky ; irides 

 bright red ; lower eyelid bare, pale bluish grey. 



Now this is big enough for male riiaximus, in which the 

 wings run from 9 to 9'5 in females, but this was the finest 

 of very many specimens examined, and the wings of other 

 specimens that I preserved (in February and March the 

 majority were moulting, and these I did not preserve) are : — 



Males, 8-4, 8-65, 8-25, 8-4, 8-4; females, 85, 8-5. 



These are all adult full-plumaged birds, too small for maxi^ 

 vnus, but too large for true intermedius, of which a very large 

 series from Tenasserim gave the wings of females from 7 '75 to 

 84, and of males from 7"3 to 7'9. 



Still they have the green tail and the very blue neck and 

 breast of intermedius, and are nearer this in colouration and 

 even size than the huge m^aximus, and as one cannot go split- 

 ting up every local race into species on account merely of slight 

 differences of size, I prefer to class the Manipur birds as inter- 

 medins, with the remark that in this basin the birds run 

 exceptionally large. 



I have the true intermedius from N.-E. Cachar, and I shot 

 it myself at Silchar, and Godwin- Austen gives a G. rufipennis, 

 which must be this species, from Teria Ghat at the north of 

 Sylhet ; but though it is sure to occur I have as yet no other 

 record of it from any part of Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, 



[But it occurs in Dibrugarh. A female measured : —Length, 

 200; expanse, 23-50; tail, 10-60; wing, 7*90; tarsus, 2-80; 

 bill from gape, 2-0 ; weight 13-50ozs. Bill, legs and feet black ; 

 irides red ; these are pretty common near cultivation in the 

 Dibrugarh district. — J. R. C.] 



In Pegu and Tenasserim it is generally distributed wherever 

 the country is at all open up to elevations not exceeding, 

 I believe, 3,000 feet. 



I have not of late years examined specimens of the Crow 

 Pheasant that occur in Arakan, but believe them to belong to 

 this species. 



218— Centrococcyx bengalensis, Gm. 



Seen only in the Manipur level, and very scarce there. I 

 came upon it perhaps half a dozen times in bulrushes and 



