142 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



394. — Stachyris chrysea, Hodgs. 



This was not very rare on the Limatol range of the Western 

 hills overlooking the Manipur basin, but I saw it nowhere 

 else in the Western hills. In the Eastern hills, especially near 

 Aimole and Matchi, it was common, and 1 shot several speci- 

 mens. 



S. chrysea we have from Mouflong in the Khasi hills, from 

 Sadiya and from Dollah, also in the Dibrugarh district, and 

 Godwin- Austen gives it from the Shengorh Peak of the Dafla 

 hills. Beyond this I have no knowledge of its distribution in 

 Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, and to British Burmah it does not, I 

 believe, extend, though in the Northern and Central Tenasserim 

 hills and in Karenee it is represented by S. assimilis, Wald. 



395. — Mixornis rubricapillus, Ticle. 



I only saw this in the Western hills and only procured two 

 specimens — one in the valley of the Limatak, the other in that 

 of the Eerung. The particulars of one are as follow : — 



ilfaZe.— ^Length, 5"4 ; expanse, 7*1; tail, 2 05; wing, 22; 

 tarsus, 065 ; bill from gape, 072 ; weight, 0-4oz. 



Legs and feet dull wax yellow, brownish on tarsi ; bill 

 pale leaden, dusky on culmen ; irides yellowish white. 



Both these specimens have the gular stripes more strongly 

 marked than in any specimens I have seen from any part of 

 India or Assam, thus making in this respect a close approach 

 to M. gularis, Horsf., but the colour of the upper surface is 

 that of rubricapillus, not the redder tint of gularis. 



This is by no means entirely a ground bird ; on both occa- 

 sions that I shot it, it was in small parties hopping about long 

 trains of creepers 20 or 30 feet from the ground. 



We have this species from N.-E. Cachar, Shillong and the 

 Dibrugarh district, and Godwin-Austen records it from the 

 Jatinga valley near Parie ghat, and from the Dafla hills. I 

 have no further knowledge as to its occurrence in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. 



[I have also shot this species in similar situations to those 

 mentioned above by Mr. Hume. Common in Dibrugarh, 

 specimens from whence had the irides in all instances of a 

 reddish colour. — J. R. C] 



In the Arakan hills this occurs everywhere rather sparingly ; 

 in most parts of Pegu and in Tenasserim, as far south as 30° 

 N. L., it is very common (further south it is replaced by the 

 Malayan form), and Ramsay procured it in Karenee. 



