84 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUK. 



237.— Dicseum chrysorrhaeum, Tem. 



I first saw this below the Limatol ridge, and a^ain two or three 

 times in the Eastern hills at elevations of from 3,000 to 4,000 

 feet. On each occasion that I met with it, it was solitary and 

 feeding on tufts of parasites on huge branches of high trees. 



Male. — Length, 4-25 ; expanse, 7-7; tail, 1-23 ; wing, 252 ; 

 tarsus, O'o ; bill from gape, 0"53 ; weight, O'45oz. 



Legs and feet leaden dusky ; bill blackish, pale plumbeous 

 at base of lower mandible ; irides orange red. 



I have this species from N,-E. Cachar, and Godwin- 

 Austen obtained it in the Naga hills, but I have no other 

 record of its occurrence in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet, 



This species occurs in Arakan and Tenasserim, but I do not 

 seem to have any specimen of it from Pegu, and Mr. Gates 

 says he has only observed it near Rangoon, where it is 

 not rare. 



2Zlter. — Dicseum olivaceum, Wald, 



This species is very common in the Western hills, but does 

 not seem to occur elsewhere in Manipur ; at any rate I never 

 recognised it. 



Male. — Length, 3"3 ; expanse, 5-8 ; tail, 0'9 ; wing, I'Sl ; 

 tarsus, 0*47 ; bill from gape, 0*4 ; weight, 019oz. 



Legs and feet dusky leaden ; upper and tip of lower man- 

 dible ditto ; rest of lower mandible pale bluish horny ; irides 

 light brown. 



I have this species from Shillong, and Godwin-Austen pro- 

 cured it at Samaguting in the Naga hills, but I have as yet 

 no other record of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 

 In British Burmah I only know of its occurrence in the hill 

 portions of Northern and Central Tenasserim. 



Godwin-Austen procured 238. — Dicceum erythrorhynchus. 

 Lath,, in the Garo hills, but I have no other record of its occur- 

 rence in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet, and I never met with it in 

 Manipur. 



[This species, although rare there, does occur in the Dibru- 

 garh district. One I shot, a male, measured : — Length, 3'35 ; 

 expanse, 5-80; tail, 1*06; wing, 1-90; tarsus, 0°45 ; bill from 

 gape, 0-41 ; weight, 0-20oz. Bill deep orange, dusky tipped ; 

 irides brown ; legs and feet dirty fleshy. — J. R. C] 



It does occur very sparingly in Central Tenasserim (Blyth 

 must have made some mistake about its exceeding abun- 

 dance about Moulmein), but I have no other record of its occur- 

 rence in British Burmah, though Blyth says it is found in 

 Arakan. 



