114 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUE, 



lastly high up on the Eastern hills they were common to a 

 degree, and were constantly shot by mistake. Frequenting 

 the densest shade of the undergrowth and only seen for a 

 moment, one has to fire, and too often the bird turned out 

 to be this. Designedly I only shot a pair in the Eastern 

 hills, but I find I have preserved some thirty specimens 

 thence (and many were not preserved), and this will give 

 an idea of their abundance and of the nuisance they are 

 there to a collector. I positively got to hate the bird ; but 

 in the semi-darkness, with only snap shots offered, it was 

 impossible to distinguish these from Gyornis vividus which 

 I wanted, and so I had to shoot every bird I saw under these 

 conditions. 



A male measured : — 



Length, 86 ; expanse, 12-5 ; tail, 37 ; wing, 4*2 ; tarsus, 0*92 ; 

 bill from gape, 0*85 ; weight, l*275ozs. 



The legs and feet were dusky leaden brown, with a silvery 

 glance ; the bill black and irides deep brown. 



I measured a female, but the figures have become illegible, 

 but she had the legs and feet a pale dull leaden blue, bill and 

 irides as in male. 



I have this from Shillong, and God win- Austen gives it 

 from the Khasi hills and the Shengurh Peak (at 6,000 feet) 

 of the Dafla hills, and he also got it, I believe, in the Naga 

 hills, but beyond this I have no knowledge of its distribution 

 in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



In British Burmah I only know of its occurrence at and 

 about Mooleyit in Central Tenasserim, where we procured it. 



317.— Anthipes moniliger, Hodgs. 



Godwin-Austen's people procured this at Gonglong in the 

 Manipur hills, and it must therefore be included in our list, 

 but 1 myself never met with it. 



I have it from Shillong, but know nothing further of its 

 occurrence in Assam, Cachar and Sylhet. 



This species is recorded from Arakan and Karenee, but 

 the slightly differing A. suhmoniliger, nobis, replaces it in 

 Tenasserim. 



Godwin- Austen records 318. — Siphia tricolor, Hodgs., from 

 the Khasi hills, but this is the only notice I have of its occur- 

 rence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. I never met with it in 

 Manipur, and it does not, so far as is yet known, extend to 

 British Burmah. 



