lli LIST OF BIRDS IN .MAXIPUR, 



In Arakan, Pegu, and Northern and Central Tenasserim 

 this species occurs everywhere in the plains country, but except, 

 perhaps, in Pegu it seems everywhere rather sparingly distri- 

 buted. 



3996/5.— Pell orneum mandellii, Blanf—{= P. nipa- 

 lensis, Hodgs.) 



I found this species pretty common in the "Western, rather 

 rare in the Eastern hills. I did not meet with it anywhere in 

 the basin. The following are exact particulars of two speci- 

 mens : — 



Legs and feet pale delicate fleshy or fleshy creamy white ; 

 upper mandible brown, lower mandible greenish horny or 

 homy white, yellow at base ; irides dull red, dull hazel. 



Having now a large series of Assam and Manipur birds, 

 I have again investigated Godwin- Austen's supposed species 

 P. pectoralis. After the most careful comparison with a 

 large series of Himalayan birds, and guided by G.-A.'s 

 own indications of ditierences, I am compelled to say that I 

 cannot discover one single constant point of difference 

 between the two sets of birds, and I can only conclude that when 

 he described this supposed species he had very few birds before 

 him from the one or the other locality 



We have this species from N.-E. Cachar, from Sadiya 

 and other places in the Dibrugarh district and from the 

 Khasi hills, and Godwin- Austen also records it from the Garo 

 and Xorth Cachar hills. To Burmah this species does not 

 extend. 



[I append measurements of the three specimens I got : — 



were shot on three separate occasions in dense forest in the 

 Dibrugarh district. They were feeding among the fallen 

 leaves on the ground. — J. E.. C] 



Besides which there are in Assam three other Pellorneiims, 

 not one of which I met within Manipur, viz., first, Sddter. — 

 Pellorneimi tickelli, Bly., which I only have from Sadiya. 

 This was the species that at one time, Ihis 1S78, 115, 



