162 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



Yet they must have seen me as if I moved ever so little 

 there was silence and a few minutes afterwards the music 

 recommenced fifty yards oif. Getting angry one day I 

 took a sudden snap shot at a spot whence a very loud series 

 of calls appeared to be issuing. A dead silence was followed 

 by most vociferous chuckling, which rapidly retreated down 

 the hill side. I cut my way to the spot I fired at ; there was 

 nothing there. Then I swore a good deal, and decided to 

 cut my way out, and in doing so. at least 20 yards further 

 on, I found my first Tnerulinus dead. After that, whenever 

 I got close to a party, I used to fire both barrels where the 

 noise was loudest and trust to luck. I can't say I took much 

 by this manoeuvre, but there was no other device possible 

 in the places in which I found them, and I did thus get two 

 more birds. Elsewhere frequenting other kinds of scrub it 

 may be different, but these wild raspberry thickets are 

 simply the — — — 



The following are particulars of two specimens. I neglected 

 alas ! to measure the third : — 



Length, Expanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape. Weight. 

 S ... 100 12 3 9 3-71 1-6 1 37 30 ozs. 



$... 10-2 12-2 40 3-7 1-6 1-3 2-84 „ 



Legs and feet pale brown or pale greyish brown, with a 

 slight pinkish or fleshy tinge on the feet ; upper mandible 

 blackish ; lower mandible and gape pale greyish ; irides pale 

 pinkish buff; orbital skin pale leaden. 



I have several specimens from Mouflong in the Khasi hills, 

 and from the whole lot I will give a detailed description : — 



A more or less brownish grey frontal band, broad and very 

 conspicuous in some, narrow and hardly traceable in others ; 

 lores like the frontal band, but sometimes greyer, generally 

 more dusky ; cheeks, ear-coverts, sides of neck and entire 

 upper parts, including visible portions of wings and tail, a 

 slightly olivaceous snuffy brown, generally more rufescent 

 on ear-coverts and tail, and often on the quills also ; the 

 outer margins of the first four or five primaries paler on their 

 terminal halves in most birds ; the inner webs of the quills, 

 and more or less of those of all but the central tail feathers, 

 deep hair brown ; a narrow white or yellowish white streak 

 from just above the posterior angle of the eye over the ear- 

 coverts — this is very conspicuous in some, hardly traceable in 

 others ; chin white to albescent buffy ; throat, upper breast 

 and central portion of lower breast and abdomen and vent 

 buff, buffy fawn, ochraceous buff, or pale ferruginous. It 

 differs in every one of eight specimens before me, as does the 



