82 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUE, 



I have this species from Shillong and two or three localities 

 at the extreme north of Sylhet and Oachar, and God win- Austen 

 found it rather common in the Naga hills, but I do not know of 

 its occurrence anywhere else in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet. 

 This species does not that I know extend into British Burmah. 



229.— .Slthopyga nipalensis, Hodgs. 



I only once recognised this species in Manipur, and that 

 was at Aimole in the Eastern hills, where I shot a fine male. 

 I may have seen others, but this was the only one I shot. 



This, though a true nipalensis with the fiery orange breast, 

 large bill, and bright yellow rump (not the pale yellow of 

 horsjleldi), has less maroon on the upper back than any 

 nipalensis I have hitherto seen. A specimen like this might 

 well lead a person, not cognisant of the other points of 

 difference, to fancy that nipalensis graded into horsjieldi. 



We have this species from the Khasi hills, and Godwin- 

 Austen includes it in his Dafla hill list, but we have as yet 

 no further record of its occurrence anywhere in Assam, Sylhet 

 or Cachar. To British Burmah, so far as I know, this species 

 does not extend. 



231— .fflthopyga saturata, Hodgs. 



I found this species common in the Eerung valley and less 

 so in that of the Limatak, both in the Western hills, and 

 ^gain I shot it at Machi on the Eastern hills. I did not 

 see it in the basin, but I made out that several of these 

 sun birds, though which it was impossible to say with certain- 

 - ty, are seen in December and January about the margins 

 of the basin at the bases of the hills. Amongst these the 

 people identified our skins of saturata. 



Male. — Length, 5"9 ; expanse, 5*5 ; tail, 2'83 ; wing, 22 ; tarsus, 

 0-55 ; bill from gape, 079 ; weight, 0-22 oz. 



Bill black ; legs and feet deep brown ; irides brown. 

 We have this species from Tippook in the easternmost por- 

 tion of the Dibrugarh district* and from the Khasi hills, and 

 Godwin-Austen in his Dafla hill list says that it is common 

 there in the Harguli and along the outer sandstone range. 



So far as we know it does not extend to British Burmah, but 

 is in Karenee and Central Tenasserim replaced by the allied 

 ./E. sanguinipectus. 



Godwin- Austen in his second list records Ginnyris zeylonica 

 from somewhere (no locality given) " in the Khasi and North 



* [^thopyga saturata I think is very rare. A vilely skinned specimen of thia 

 BpecieSj given me by a brother planter, was the only one I ever saw. — J. R. C] 



