166 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



The following are details of those I measured : — 



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



$ ... 9-6 11-0 4-3 3-4 136 I'Ol 1-73 oza. 



„... 9 3 10-7 4 3 4 1-3 10 165 ,, 



„... 9-0 10'6 3-95 3-25 1-38 0-96 1-55 „ 



$... 9-35 10 6 41 3-3 137 I'O 1-68 „ 



„... 90 10-5 3-8 3-1 1-36 0-97 1-61 „ 



., ... 8-8 10-4 3-7 3-12 1-3 09 1-58 „ 



The legs and feet were pale fleshy pink, slightly yellowish in 

 one, slightly brownish in another ; the basal two-thirds, more 

 or less, of upper mandible, pale brown to dusky ; rest of upper 

 and entire lower mandible horny yellow, dirty yellowish horny 

 or sullied ivory ; irides pale orange yellow, pale orange buff, 

 very pale yellow, or pale buff ; edges of lids and bare skin 

 dusky, lower bare lid pale lavender. 



De coloribus, <&c., but the only description yet published of 

 this species appears to me to be downright wrong and mis- 

 leading in many points. 



Nareal plumes, forehead, crown, occiput, nape, and generally 

 a streak or some blotches, extending a little below this (in one 

 case right down to the middle of the back) black, velvet black 

 in some, rather brownish black in others. Occasionally (there 

 are traces of this in 5 out of 1 3) some of the stiffish frontal 

 feathers have more or less of one web or the extreme tip 

 greyish or fawny white. Lores, a broad band over and stretch- 

 ing far behind the eyes, a narrow band under the eye and ear- 

 coverts, white, purest under the eye, creamy elsewhere, and 

 acquiring a faint (or in some few a decided) fulvous tinge on the 

 ear-coverts and the posterior portion of the eye-streak ; a 

 narrow black band from just above the posterior angle of the 

 eye, dividing the continuation of the eye -streak from the ear- 

 coverts ; a black moustachial streak, very narrow at the gape, 

 widening lower down ; chin and throat white or creamy, or 

 very pale fawn, entirely without streaks in any of my speci- 

 mens, but in two with some of the shafts of the feathers 

 darker. Breast and sides of the neck, immediately below the 

 end of the moustachial stripe, pale fawn colour, with possibly 

 a very slight vinaceous tinge ; on the sides of the neck, 

 radiating as it were from the drop-like end of the moustachial 

 stripe, a number of small, often streak-like, black spots, which 

 in. some birds (this was written with the fresh birds before me) 

 arrange themselves in regular rows, in others seem irregularly 

 placed. These spots vary greatly in number and in the area 

 they cover, and in one or two are almost confluent ; often 

 inamediately under the moustachial stripe along each side of the 

 upper throat we find a row of black dots quite unconnected 



