100 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



Austen includes this species in his Dafla list, but I seem to have 

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



This grey form, intermediate between what I call leucopham 

 and longicaudata, is widely spread throughout the whole of 

 British Burmah, and every where birds occur with wings varying 

 in length from less than five to five and three-quarter inches. 



I have typical 280. — B. longicaudata, Hay, from Dollah and 

 Tippook in the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin-Aasten records 

 it from the Khasi hills, but I have no further knowledge of 

 its occurrence in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet, nor did I meet with 

 one such specimen in Manipur. All over Burmah it occurs 

 along with pyrrhops, 



282.— Chaptia senea, VieilL 



I met with this species at Kumbiron and in all the river 

 valleys in the Western hills, but I cannot remember seeing it 

 either in the basin or in the Eastern hills. All the specimens I 

 preserved are from the Western hills and all are cenea. I have this 

 species from Northern and N.-E. Cachar, Northern Sylhet, the 

 Garo hills, the Khasi hills and Shillong itself, and numerous 

 localities in the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin- Austen in his 

 Dafla hill list gives it from Harmutti and the Dikrang valley. 



[Fairly common in the well-wooded portions of the Dibrugarh 

 district, and never found far away from water. Its favourite 

 haunts are trees that overhang the banks of rivers. — J. B,. C] 



This species occurs all over British Burmah, except in Southern 

 Tenasserim, where it is replaced >)y the allied form 0. malayensis. 



283. — Bringa remifer, Tern. 



This species was common throughout the Western hills 

 as far as the western slopes of the Limatol range, but I do not 

 remember seeing it, nor have I any note of its occurrence any- 

 where in the basin or the Eastern hills, and all the specimens 

 I preserved are from the Western ones. 



The following are particulars of a pair. None of the females 



I shot had as long tails as the males, though some had a good 



deal longer than the one I happened to measure : — 



Length. Ex- Tail. Wing, Tar- Bill Weight. 



y -.ipanse.^ — — ^— ^— n sms. from 



To end of To end of Central Outer gave' 



central outer tail- tail-fea- tail-fea- 



tail-fea- feathers, thers. thers. 

 thers. 



$ ... 10-8 23-7 16 5 5-4 18-3 545 0-7 117 158 ozs. 



$ - 100 18-7 153 4 8 13-3 525 78 I'lS 1-42 „ 



Legs, feet and bill black ; irides brown. 



