126 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



Male, 18th October, 1882.— Length, 9-10 ; expanse, 14-25 ; 

 tail, 3-40 ; wing, 470; tarsus, M5; bill from gape, 1-20 ; 

 weight, 1.55. Bill, legs, and feet black; irides brown ; gape 

 and mouth inside yellow. — J. R. C] 



352.— Petrophila erythrogastra, Vig. 



I saw this occasionally in both Eastern and Western hills, 

 but being such an excessively common bird with us in the 

 Himalayas, I stupidly took no notes of it at the time, and 

 now I find I have only preserved two specimens, one from 

 the valley of the Eerung in the Western, the other from 

 Aimole in the Eastern hills ; but I could certainly have 

 shot a dozen ; they were not rare. 



I have this species from Shillong, and Godwin-Austen 

 records it from N. Cachar, but I have no further knowledge 

 of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



I do not know that t|iis species has ever occurred in British 

 Burmah, but Ramsay records it from just outside in 

 Karenee. 



355. — Geocichla citrina, Lath. 



I shot one specimen of this species on the Noongzai-ban 

 range, but did not preserve it, it being a common bird, and we 

 having our hands more than full ; but unfortunately we never 

 obtained another specimen — indeed I never again saw it, 

 though my men said they saw it near Kangoee on the Eastern 

 hills. Even if this is correct the bird must be extremely rare 

 in Manipur between February 1 st and June 1st; what it may 

 be at other seasons I cannot say. 



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

 Godwin- Austen records it from the Garo hills and from Asalu, 

 and includes it in his Dafla hill list. It is widely and gener- 

 ally distributed throughout Arakan, Pegu and Tenasserim 

 (extending to Karenee) in all appropriate stations. 



358.— Geocichla dissimilis, Bly. 



In April and May Thrushes were very numerous in the Eastern 

 hills, but withal very wild and difficult to get at. The pre- 

 sent species was the only one at all get-at-able. Like the rest 

 it was always to be found on the ground, rummaging and feed- 

 ing amongst the fallen leaves ; but whereas ohscurus, pallidus, 

 &c., were always off like a flash of lightning at the slightest 

 crackle of a twig within fifty yards of where they were, the 

 present species would often only fly up a few feet on to a bare 



