86 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



245^25. — Oerthia manipurensis, Hume. 



This species fully characterised, S. F., X, 151, was only met 

 ■with in the Eastern hills at elevations of 5,000 feet and up- 

 wards, and even there was not very common. 



I have as yet no record of the occurrence of this species 

 elsewhere, but I cannot help thinking that Godwin- Austen^s 

 Naga hill and Ramsay's Karenee specimens identified as dis- 

 color may have really belonged to this species. 



248. — Sitta himalayensis, Jard. ^ Selb, 



Godwin-Austen records this from Aimul (which I conclude 

 must be Aimole) in the Manipur hills. Now the only Nut- 

 hatch I saw at Aimole was S. cinnamomeiventris, and I 

 cannot help suspecting some mistake, the more so that we 

 have no other record of the occurrence of this species (hima- 

 layensis) anywhere in Assam, Oachar, Sylhet or British Burmah. 

 At the same time of course Major Austen knows the birds 

 well, and the white on the tail of himalayensis almost precludes 

 the idea of a mistake. 



Godwin-Austen also got in the Naga hills his appa- 

 rently very distinct 24s8ter. — Sitta nagaensis, Godwin- A ust. 

 This is one of the three species undoubtedly occurring within 

 the British Asian Empire which I have never seen, and of 

 which I have never been able to procure a single specimen. 

 There is no other record of its occurrence anywhere. 



251.— Sitta cinnamomeiventris, Bly, 



This is the only Nuthatch that I met with in Manipur, and 

 I only saw it on the Eastern hills at Machi, Aimole, &c., at 

 which latter place especially it is by no means rare. 



I measured a pair :— 



Length. Hxpanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape. Weight. 

 $ .„ 5-5 98 1-7 3 08 0-72 0-9 0-63 oz. 



i? ... 5-5 100 18 307 0-7 0-85 06 _ „ 



Male. — Legs and feet brownish leaden with a faint green tinge ; 

 upper and tip of lower mandible blackish horny ; rest of lower 

 and extreme base of upper mandible pale bluish ; irides brown. 

 Female. — Legs and feet greenish dusky ; extreme base 

 of upper and basal two-thirds of lower mandible pale bluish 

 grey ; rest of bill blackish ; irides brown. 



I have this from Shillong, and Godwin- Austen also got this 

 in the Khasi hills. I have it likewise from many localities 

 in the Dibrugarh district, and in his Dafla hill list Godwin- 

 Austen notes it from Harmutti. No other record yet from 

 Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 



