140 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



For measurements of Tenasserim specimens \YMch scarcely 

 differ, vide S. F., VI, 261. 



I have this species from near Kohima in the Naga hills, 

 and there can, I think, now be no question that A, fusca of 

 Godwin-Austen from these same hills is nothing but this 

 bird. 



Blyi.h first described this species from Arakan, we have it 

 from Northern Pegu,* and have found it moderately common 

 in suitable localities throughout Tenasserim. 



890gw^?^^. — Turdinus brevicaudatus, Bhj. (= T, 

 striatus, Wald., A. M. N. H., 4th s., VII, 241 ; and 

 T. luilliamsoni, G.-Aust., J. A. S, B., 1877, Part II, 

 44.) 



I never met with this species in Manipur, but Godwin- Austen 

 procured specimens thence, and it must therefore be included 

 in our list. 



As already remarked, S. F., VII, 262, I do not consider 

 that the Assamese form of this bird is specifically separable 

 from the Burmese one, though the latter as a body do run 

 more richly coloured. I have this species from near Sadiya, 

 and God win- Austen procured it along the southern bases of 

 the Garo and Khasi hills, and this is all I yet know of its 

 occurrence in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. In British Burmah 

 we have only as yet found it about Mooleyit ia Central Tenas- 

 serim. 



390sep«.— Turdinus (?) garoensis, G.-Aust. 



This bird is not a Turdinus at all, but until the entire group, 

 Drymocataphus, Trichastoma, &c., &c., is carefully rearranged, 

 I cannot pretend to locate it correctly. 



I have already, S. F., VI, 514, explained how this 

 species, which I at one time suspected to be identical with 

 T minus, nobis, differs therefrom, and now that I have seen 

 garoensis in the flesh, I see that the birds are quite distinct. 



I only procured one specimen in Manipur, and that was 

 at Noongba in the Western hills, and I measured and recorded 

 the colours of the soft parts of this, within five minutes 

 after I shot it, so these particulars, though differing slightly 

 from those given by Godwin-Austen, are certainly correct. 



Female (the males in the closely allied and representative 

 T. minus run larger than the females, vide S. F., VI, 260). — 



* Mr. Gates says it is common in the evergreen forests of the Pegu hills, - 



