134 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



In both Northern and Southern Pegu and Northern and 

 Central Tenasserim it occurs, but only, I think, as a straggler. 

 From Arakan I have not seen it. 



I did not meet with a single Paradoxornis in Manipur, 

 though doubtless some occur. No less than four species are 

 recorded from Assam, &c. First, there is 373. — Paradoxornis 

 fiavirostris, Gould., which I have from N.-E. Cachar, and several 

 other localities in Sylhet and Cachar, and likewise in the 

 Dibrugarh district, and which Godwin-Austen also notes from 

 Bholagunj in Northern Sylhet, and from the high grass in the 

 low country skirting the Dafla hills. I am not aware that 

 this species has as yet been observed anywhere in British 

 Burmah. 



[During the rains when the rivers are high I have often, 

 when travelling by boat, seen a Yellow-bellied Finch Thrush 

 amongst the high reeds fringing the banks, which I identified 

 as Paradoxornis fiavirostris. This was in the Dibrugarh 

 district, and at the lower courses of the Dehing and Desang 

 rivers, a few miles above their junction with the Brahma- 

 putra river. — J. B. C] 



Second, we have 4>7 Shis.— Paradoxornis guttaticollis, A. Dav. 

 (187l)=a.MS^em, Gould. (1874), which I have from Shillong and 

 the Khasi hills only, but which Godwin- Austen also procured at 

 Kuchai in the Naga hills. Beyond this there is no record 

 of its occurrence as yet in Assam, Cachar, Sylhet or British 

 Burmah. 



Third, 374 — Paradoxornis gularis, Horsf., which Godwin- 

 Austen obtained at Asalu, and Ramsay in Karenee, but of 

 the occurrence of which in Assam, Cachar, Sylhet and British 

 Burmah there is as yet no other record.* 



Fourth, there is ^1^.— Paradoxornis ruficeps, Ely., which I 

 have from the Dibrugarh district, from Shillong, Mouflong, &c., 

 and which Godwin-Austen shot on the Hemeo Peak in 

 N. Cachar. 



This species has been received from the Arakan Hill Tracts ; 

 we procured it in the north of Tenasserim proper (Pahpoon), 

 and Ramsay got it in Karenee at 2,500 feet, and the above 



*In S. F., VI, 257, I said of this species that it was " likely to occur in the 

 cold season, as in Cachar or Sylhet, in grass jungles, &c." I cannot now 

 find that I had any warrant for the words that I have italicised. Certainly 

 I can find no specimens from either of these districts in the museum. 

 1 must have been thinking I suppose of P. flaviroslris. 



