156 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



I measured a good number, and the following are exact 

 details : — 



The legs and feet are 4 pale silvery leaden ; the bill black, 

 whitish horny at the extreme tips ; the irides brownish 

 yellow, orange, or orange red; the bare skin below and behind 

 the eye pale blue, and this patch extends as far back as the tips 

 of the black ear-coverts. This bare patch is almost the most 

 conspicuous feature in the live bird, but Austen does not men- 

 tion it. For his description and remarks on the habits of this 

 species which he procured under the Kopum range ( Manipur) 

 and about various streams that flow into the south-eastern 

 portion of the basin, vide S. F., Ill, 394. [ will redescribe it : 

 — Chin, feathers at the base of lower mandible, lores, a very 

 narrow frontal band, a narrow band above and a broad band be- 

 low the eyes, and the ear-coverts, velvet black ; forehead, crown, 

 occiput and back and sides of neck, a greyish olive green, paler 

 in some, duskier in others, often with a decidedly greyer tinge 

 on the nape, and always with a more or less distinct grey shade 

 on the foremost frontal feathers just above the black frontal band; 

 entire mantle brown, sometimes with an olivaceous, sometimes 

 with a faint rusty tinge, not unfrequently with a faint 

 yellowish tinge on the lower rump and shorter upper tail-coverts; 

 longest upper tail-coverts and basal two-thirds of central 

 tail-feathers grey, sometimes a pure French grey, sometimes 

 with a brownish, sometimes with a faint olivaceous tinge ; 

 rest of central tail-feathers deep brown, often obsoletely barred 

 paler and narrowly tipped with brownish grey or brownish 

 white or pale brown ; next pair similar, but the deep brown 

 portions longer, and more decidedly paler tipped, and with the 

 grey on the inner webs less pronounced ; the outer four pairs 

 grey towards their bases (this grey varying in shade as 

 above and being often more or less obsolete on the inner webs), 

 then dark brown (except in the outermost feathers where 

 this is paler), and then broadly tipped with pure white, for say 

 a full inch on the outermost pair and half an inch on the 

 feathers next, but one, to the centre ones ; quills hair brown, 

 the visible portions of the primaries shaded with a more or 

 less pure hoary grey, and those of the secondaries and terti- 

 aries with a more or less greyish olivaceous shade of the 



