122 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



nor do I know of its having been found elsewhere in Assam, 

 Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah, though Eamsay obtained it 

 just outside the north-east frontier of this latter in Karenee. 



All these Pnoepygas and Brachypteryx are skulking, 

 sneaking brushwood birds, that demand close and leisurely 

 collection, and I doubt not that as time goes on most of them 

 will prove to be far more widely distributed than we at present 

 have any idea of. 



343.— Myiophoneus temittincki, tig. 



In the Western hills this was by no means rare, though far 

 less common than in the Himalayas, but I never once saw it 

 after leaving these, and if it does extend to the Eastern 

 hills it must be extremely scarce there. 



It must be common in the Khasi hills fronri the number 

 of specimens sent me, and occurs close to Shillong itself. I have 

 it also from ]S,-E. Cachar, and God win- Austen includes it in his 

 Dafla hill list, but I know nothing further certainly of its 

 occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, though I haVe been told 

 that it has been noticed both in the Garo and Naga hills. 



[In December, 1881, a party of us planters went up the De- 

 hing river fishing far above Jaipur in the Dibrugarh district and 

 where the hills (Naga) run down to the river's edge. The bed 

 of the river here is sandy and pebbly, with rocks jutting out 

 at intervals, and in these places several birds were seen, but 

 being single individuals were very wild, and none were 

 brought to bag. Knowing the bird well I am certain of my 

 identification. — J. R. C.] 



As regards Burmah its distribution is uncertain. Blyth 

 gives it from Arakan. I have seen a specimen from near 

 Thayetmyo, and Ramsay is said to have procured this species 

 in the Karen hills, but certainly in the Pegu Yoma and the 

 hills of Northern and Central Tenasserim it is replaced by the 

 allied but quite distinct M. eugenii, nobis, which however 

 does not apparently cross the Irrawadi westwards. 



344.— Hydrornis nipalensis, Hodgs. 



I procured a single specimen of this large Ground Thrush 

 at Matchi in the Eastern hills, but never myself again met 

 with it in Manipur, though one of my men averred that he had 

 seen and shot at one in the Eerung valley in the Western 

 hills. 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar, and from Sadiya, and numerous 

 localities in the Dibrugarh district. I have not received it from 

 Shillong, but Godwin- Austen got it in the Khasi hills, and 



