104 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



In Burmah the exact distribution of this species has yet to 

 be worked out. Blyth gives it from Arakan, and I have seen 

 it from the Hill Tracts. It occurs almost everywhere in 

 Pegu and in the Karen hills. We never obtained it in Northern 

 Tenasserim, but found it in the evergreen forests of the cen- 

 tral and southern sections of that province. 



290.— Hypothymis azurea, Bodd. 



Seen once but not obtained in the Eerung valley in the 

 Western hills. Seen nowhere in the central or northern 

 portions of the basin, but it appeared fairly common about 

 Sagam, Soognoo and Phalel in the south and south-east 

 of this, where numerous specimens were preserved. Not 

 once observed on the Eastern hills. 



We have this species from N.-E. Cachar, the extreme 

 north of Sylhet, the Garo and Khasi hills, and from Sadiya 

 and several other localities in the Dibrugarh district, but 

 this closes our list of known localities in Assam, Sylhet and 

 Cachar. 



[Common in both Dibrugarh and Sibsagar. Their favourite 

 haunts are roads leading through forests. A very silent bird. — 

 J. R. C] 



Throughout all the provinces of British Burmah this seems 

 to be universally distributed in all suitable localities. 



291.— Leucocerca albicollis, Vieill. 



This species is rare in Manipur. I shot one on the Barak 

 E.. between Kalanaga and Koomberin in the Western hills 

 and two at Aimole high up on the Eastern hills, and these 

 were all I saw, to the best of my belief, from first to last. 



These Manipur birds are all blacker on the backs, breasts 

 and tails than most Himalayan specimens, and they have 

 the tippings to the lateral tail-feathers a much purer white. 

 There are other small differences, and I dare say somebody 

 will some day give them a distinct name, but they are not 

 in my opinion specifically separable. 



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

 and Kowang in the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin-Austen 

 too notes it from the Khasi hills and includes it in his Dafla 

 hill list. Beyond this I know nothing of its distribution 

 in Assam, Cachar or Sylhet. 



[Fairly common in the Dibrugarh district, where it 

 frequents gardens, groves, and thinly-scattered forest. — 

 J. R. C] 



