158 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



usually a shade darker ; bill deep brown to blackish ; gape, and 

 often base of lower mandible, and bare lower lid, pale bluish 

 grey, or bluish white, or dull fleshy grey, or pale leaden ; 

 edges of lids and bare skin behind eye dusky to dusky leaden ; 

 irides sometimes light brown, generally liver brown, rarely 

 dull brownish maroon. 



Forehead, crown and occiput a dull ruddy brown ; back 

 and sides of neck and upper portions of ear-coverts, chin, throat, 

 upper breast, a duller and generally paler shade of the same 

 colour ; lower two-thirds of ear-coverts, cheeks, lores and a super- 

 cilium extending almost to the nape, white ; entire mantle and 

 visible portions of quills rather pale dull olive brown ; inner 

 webs of quills hair brown ; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 generally a shade paler and yellower than the back ; tail a 

 decidedly rufescent brown, the inner webs of the lateral 

 tail-feathers towards their tips more or less wanting the 

 rufous shade and appearing a darker purer brown ; breast 

 brownish fulvous, a little brushed at times with olivaceous ; 

 middle of abdomen and vent a purer fulvous ; sides of breast 

 and body and flanks a pale earthy olivaceous brown, the 

 longest flank feathers more or less tipped with the fulvous 

 of the lower abdomen ; lower tail-coverts pale ferruginous, 

 or ferruginous buff; edge of the wing fulvous white ; wing- 

 lining grey brown. 



So far as I know this species does not occur in any part 

 of Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah. 



410.— Garrulax ruficoUis, Jard. & Selb. 



Very common in the long grass of the Kopura Thull, and 

 generally throughout the entire basin, where it may be met 

 with at every turn threading its way through the lofty grass or 

 along the bamboo and grass hedgerows, very like Pyctoris 

 longirostris. Even in the enclosure hedges of the capital it 

 swarms, but I never found it (except at the Kopum Thull, 

 which physically is analogous to the main basin) anywhere 

 in either Western or Eastern hills. 



It seems to be almost purely insectivorous, though I did find 

 a few small fruits and seeds in the stomachs of two or three 

 of the many I examined. 



It is quite as often in pairs as in small parties, and once or 

 twice I came across huge flocks of 70 or 80. 



These Manipur specimens as a body have the red of the 

 sides and neck and lower tail-coverts, &c., a brighter, more 

 orange ferruginous, than Himalayan specimens. Moreover down 



