106 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



sent from Arakan, Northern and Southern Pegu and from 

 all parts of Tenasserim, but it is everywhere sparsely 

 distributed. 



297.— Alseonax latirostris, Raffles. 



I obtained a pair of this species at Kangoee in the Eastern 

 hills, on the range between Aimole and Matchi. I never 

 noticed it elsewhere, though it doubtless occurs. 



I do not appear to have a single specimen of this species 

 from Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, but Godwin-Austen notes 

 it from the Garo hills. Blyth records it from Arakan. I have 

 not seen it yet from Northern Pegu, though it is common in 

 the south of that province, and it occurs in Tenasserim from 

 Tonghoo to Victoria Point, though everywhere very sparsely 

 distributed. 



299. — Alseonax ferrugineus, Hodgs. 



I shot a pair of these, breeding, as I found when I dissected 

 them, at the same time and place as I shot the H. sibirieus. 

 They were all together on the brushwood and low trees, 

 growing in a huge vault, as it were, formed by the crowns 

 and higher branches of groups of enormous trees that entirely 

 covered the broad summit of the hill. Elsewhere in Manipur 

 I did not obtain or notice this species. 



From Shillong I have specimens, but I have no other record 

 of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[Common in the forest tracts of the Dibrugarh district, and 

 a permanent resident. — J. R. C] 



In British Burmah this is rare ; we have it from Bankasoon, the 

 foot of Nwalebo and the Thoungyin valley. Blyth records 

 it from Thyetmyo, and Gates from near Pegu, and this is all 

 I know of its occurrence in British Burmah. 



301. — Stoporala melanops, Vig. 



I believe I saw this at Limatol in the Western hills, but if 

 so I neither noted it nor did I preserve any specimen there. 

 In the basin I did not see it, bat at Aimole, Matchi and all 

 the hills between and near these it was common and several 

 were preserved. Though I could not find a nest it was breeding 

 in the Eastern hills about the end of April. 



We have this from Shillong and the Khasi hills, N -E. 

 Cachar and JoonkotoUee in Dibrugarh, and God win- Austen 

 includes it in his Dafla hill list, and this is all I certainly 

 know of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



