154 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUK, 



of the occurrence of which anywhere eke there is as yet 

 no record. 



Again there is the lovely 408 quat. — Garrulax nucJialis, G.- 

 Aust., the most beautiful perhaps of the many discoveries 

 we owe to that accomplished naturalist, which we have from 

 Joonkotollee in the Dibrugarh district, and which was procured 

 for him, first in the Lhota-Naga hills, and then again on the 

 Kamlangpani. I did not procure this in Manipur, though I 

 am almost certain I saw it in the Eastern hills north of Tankool 

 Hoondoong, and of its occurrence elsewhere I have no record. 



My specimens do not agree exactly with Godwin- Austen's 

 description, and it may be useful to describe them, as possibly 

 no other specimens but his and mine have yet been pro- 

 cured. G. nuchalis. — A broad frontal band, lores, a narrow 

 band over and a trace of the same below the eye, chin, and 

 a broad band down the front of the throat on to the upper 

 breast, velvet black ; forehead, crown and occiput a pure 

 dark slate colour ; the first two or three feathers of the fore- 

 head on each side pure whit6 at their bases ; cheeks, ear- 

 coverts and sides of throat and foreneck, pure white, just 

 shading below into the delicate French grey of the breast and 

 upper abdomen, which on the former has the slightest possible, 

 scarcely recognizable, vinous tinge '; lower abdomen, wing-lining, 

 vent, flanks, tibial plumes and lower tail-coverts olive brown ; a 

 narrow blackish line, continued from the black above the eye, 

 over the greater part of the ear-coverts dividing these from the 

 slaty cap ; nape and entire back of neck and upper portion of 

 interscapulary region the most intense ferruginous ; rest of upper 

 parts olive brown (not a trace of green about it) shaded faint- 

 ly on the upper back with ferruginous ; the inner webs of 

 quills and tail deep to almost blackish brown, and the olive 

 shade on the central tail-feathers and the outer webs of the 

 other ones, only extending to within about half an inch of the 

 tips, produces a sort of appearance of a dark tipping to the tail ; 

 no ferruginous tinge on the shoulder of the wing, which is 

 merely a warm olive brown ; the first three quills distinctly, 

 the next four more or less obscurely, margined on their outer 

 webs {not tipped) with hoary grey. 



[I got only one specimen in the Dibrugarh district of 

 40Hquat, but the bird is by no means rare, as on several subse- 

 quent occasions I noticed parties of 10 and 12 when riding 

 through forest-bordered roads. 



JF'ema/e.— Length, lOSO ; tail, 440 ; wing, 420 ; tarsus, 1*55 ; 

 bill from gape, 1"17 ; weight, 2 75 ozs. 



