130 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



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

 and the Dibrugarh district, and I also saw three near Karimgunj 

 in Sylhet, but beyond this I know nothing of its distribution 

 in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[Very common in Dibrugarh in the winter of 1879, which 

 was a very dry one, but the other seasons a few were always 

 seen about in small parties. They keep to open ground. — 

 J. R. C] 



It does not, that I know of, extend to British Burmab. 



There is another species 366. — Turdus fuscatus, Pall., which 

 I have from Shillong and the Dibrugarh districts, and which 

 God win- Austen records from the Japvo Peak of the Burrail range 

 at nearly 10,000 feet elevation, and from Harmutti in his Daila 

 list ; but there is as yet no other record of its occurrence in 

 Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. I never saw it in Manipur, and I do 

 not yet know of its extending to any part of British Burmah. 



ZQdbis. — Turdus obscurus, Gm. 



This species, unnoticed elsewhere, was common in consider- 

 able-sized flocks in the Eastern hills of Manipur. 



Full dimensions and particulars have been previously given, 

 S. F., VI, 252, so I need not give details here. 



I have numbers of this species from Shillong, where it seems 

 to be excessively common ; but this is the only record I have 

 of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. Blyth records 

 it from Arakan, and we found it pretty common alike in hills 

 and plains throughout Tenasserim, but I seem to have no 

 specimens from nor any record of its occurrence in Pegu, 

 except that Mr. Gates once obtained a single specimen a 

 little south of the town of Pegu. 



?369«er.— Turdus pallidus, Gm. 



The species which I identified as pallidus was not rare on the 

 Eastern hills, but extremely difficult to procure. I never saw 

 it in the Western hills nor in the basin. 



Let me first give dimensions* of three specimens : — 



Length. Expanse. Tail, Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape. Weight. 



^...9-3 15'14 3-7 50 13 10 1 



$...9-25 15- 3-5 4-69 1-2 1-0 1 



$...9 3 14-5 3-62 4-8 1-2 0-95 ? 



Legs and feet brownish yellow ; bill blackish brown, yellow 

 at gape and on base of lower mandible ; irides brown. 



* I did not record these myself, but believe they were carefully done. 



