138 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



in the Darrang district. This is all I know of its distribu- 

 tion in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, and it does not, so far 

 as has yet been ascertained, extend to any part of British 

 Burmah. 



Besides this Godwin-Austen records 3866^s. — Pyctoris 

 altirostris, Jerd., from the Bishnath plain and Sibsagar, 

 but we have as yet no other record of its occurrence 

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

 as to British Burmah, all we know is that Jerdon found it on 

 churs of the Irrawadi (presumably near Thayetmyo), and 

 that Mr. Gates rediscovered it near Pegu Town and subse- 

 quently found it common throughout Eastern Pegu. The 

 above is penned under the assumption that P. griseigularis, 

 nobis = altirostris — a point on which I personally am still 

 doubtful {vide S. F., V, 251). 



387.— Trichastoma abbotti, Ely. 



This was not uncommon in the Jhiri level, and I again saw 

 it in the valley of the Barak inside the Western hills, but 

 bevond this I did not again meet with it in Manipur. 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar. Shillong, and several places in 

 the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin-Austen records it from the 

 base of the South Garo hills, and beyond this I know nothing 

 certainly of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 



[Fairly common in Dibrugarh in suitable localities, which are 

 generally not far from water. — J. E.. C] 



Throughout British Burmah this species is widely but sparsely 

 distributed in all suitable localities, but there are large tracts 

 in Upper Pegu and in the north of Tenasserim proper where 

 it is apparently either very scarce or entirely wanting. 



388.— Alcippe nipalensis, Hodgs. 



This species v^^as very common between Jhiri ghat and 

 Noongzai-ban, in small flocks, haunting the shrubs and lower 

 trees and keeping up an incessant chattering chirping note. 



It was very common too at Koombiron, but keeping very 

 much out of sight in the thick cover. 



Thereafter I rarely saw it until we rose the Limatol 

 range, and there it was again very common. In the basin I 

 never saw it, but everywhere in the Eastern hills it was 

 again abundant. 



The snow-white eyelid ring of this species is very 

 conspicuous in life, and many a poor little chap's life was 



