88 LIST OP BIEDS IN MANIPijR, 



district.* Godwin-Austen says it is rare on the Burrail range, 

 and indeed it is not generally common high up on any hills.f 

 He also includes it in his Dafla hill list. Throughout Pegu and 

 Tenasserim it is replaced by the next species. I have seen no 

 Arakan specimen. Blyth says he thinks it is epops that occurs 

 there. 



254^15.— Upupa longirostris, Jei^d. 



I shot this in the valley of the Limatak in the "Western hills, 

 and again in the Sengmai Turail inside the Eastern hills, but I 

 did not see it or at any rate shoot it (and the bird is not to be 

 distinguished from epops till one has it in the hand) anywhere 

 in the Manipur basin, though it very likely occurs there also. 



These longwostris are pale, quite as pale as the epo'ps I 

 shot, but the bills at forehead are 2*4 and 2*5, and the white 

 bar on the posterior crest feathers is obsolete. 



I shot this at Lukipur in Cachar, and have it from further 

 north-east in that district, but have as yet no other record 

 of its occurrence in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet. It is generally 

 distributed throughout Pegu and Tenasserim, but I do not 

 know whether both or, if not, which species occurs in Arakan. 



258. — Lanius tephronotus, Vig. 



Very common in the Western hills, where it was the only 

 Shrike observed, except in the Kopum Tbull and the valley of 

 the Limata, where I also saw nigriceps. 



My notes fail me here, and I cannot remember whether I 

 saw it again anywhere in the basin or the Eastern hills. Any- 

 how I have no specimens from either. 



Length, Expanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus, 



g ... 9-4 12-3 4-65 4-0 1-2 



$ ... 94 123 4-6 3-9 Tl 



$ ... 9-7 12-7 4-9 3-92 1-16 



Legs and feet black ; soles and edges of scutse hoary grey ; bill 

 black, leaden dusky to pale bluish horny and horny fleshy white 

 at gape and on base of lower mandible ; irides brown to deep 

 brown. 



* l^Upupa epops is a common annual visitant to the Dibrugarh district. The 

 earliest date on which I have noticed it was 1st September. Never seen in 

 forest, nor have I heard them call in Assam. Till lately I was perfectly ignorant 

 of their call, but only the other day in January, when walking in the station of 

 Bettiah, I heard and saw one calling. — J. E. C] 



t Still one is often to be seen for a day on my lawn at Simla, at 7,750 feet, and 

 I have seen stray birds at much greater elevations. Henderson (Yarkand to 

 Lahore) met with it at 16,000 feet. But birds seen above three or four thousand 

 feet are merely migrants halting for a brief rest. 



