146 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



Tenasserira, and thence I have seen only one specimen collected 

 near Amherst by Dr. Armstrong. 



Second, SQOferA. — Pellorneum ignotwm, nobis, V, 334^ 

 August 1877 . = Turdinus nagaensis, Godwin-AviSten., A. M. 

 N. H., December 1877, which I have from Dollah in the 

 Dibrugarh district, and Godwin-Austen from the Eastern Naga 

 hills, and which does not, so far as I know, extend to Burmah. 



Third, d99quat — Pellorneum palustre, Jerd., of which 

 "the type given me by Jerdon came from the Khasi hills, 

 which I have from Sadiya, and Godwin- Austen from Rhola- 

 ganj and Chatak in North Sylhet, and of which I can find no 

 other record anywhere. 



400 — Pomatorhinus ruficollis, ffodgs. 



It was only in the Eastern hills that I ever saw this, and 

 only in the neighbourhood of Matchi that it was at all common. 



The following are particulars of a female :• — 



Length, 7*8 ; expanse, 8"8 ; tail, 32 ; wing, 3*0 ; tarsus, 1*18 ; 

 bill from gape, 09 ; weight, 0"98 oz. 



Legs and feet pale greyish fleshy ; bill pale horny yellow, 

 dusky about nares ; irides dull maroon. 



I quite agree with Godwin-Austen that as a body the birds 

 from Assam, and I may add Manipur, are somewhat different 

 from those from the Himalayas. The Assamese, &c., birds 

 are somewhat smaller, less robust and with markedly smaller 

 legs, feet and claws ; they are as to colour a very faded, 

 much less rufous, edition of the generality of Sikhim birds, and 

 they have much less black or dusky on the upper mandible. 

 But these differences are not to my mind specific, because I 

 find that in a large series of both Himalayan and Assamese 

 specimens, I can pick out some that do not appreciably differ. 

 All the Shillong birds are not at once distinguishable from all 

 the Sikhim ones ; it is only the great majority of each that 

 differ recognizably, and this is not sufficient to warrant specific 

 separation. 



About Shillong this is very common, and Godwin- Austen 

 says that it is equally so in the Naga hills, and this is all we 

 know of its distribution as yet in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 

 So far as is yet known it does not extend to British 

 Burmah. 



Godwin- Austen appears to have procur ed401. — Pomatorhinus 

 ferruginosus, Bly.; in the Naga hills, vide his 6th list, and if so 



