176 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



444 — Hypsipetes psaroides, Vig. 



I only met with this species on the Noongzai-ban ridge 

 a few hundred feet above Noongzai-ban. I never saw it again 

 in either the Western or Eastern hills, and if it occurs it must be 

 rare. 



I have it from N.-E. Cachar, "Northern Sylhet, Shillong and 

 the Khasi hills, Sadiya and other places in the Dibrugarh 

 district, and Godwin-Austen includes it in his Dafla hill list. 



[ Common in Dibrugarh in suitable localities. They keep to 

 forest, where they are found feeding on insects that infest 

 the flowers of the different trees.— J. K,. C. ] 



It is recorded by Blyth from Arakan, whence I have not 

 seen it. I do not think it occurs in Pega, but in Northern and 

 Central Tenasserim it is replaced by F. concolor, Blyth (vide 

 S. F., VI, 296), but note that this latter, so given, fide 

 G.-Austen, does not occur in the Khasi hills. 



447. — Hypsipetes macclellandi, Horsf. 



I only procured this species on the higher portions of the 

 Eastern hills, where it was rather common. I thought I saw 

 it on the Limatol range of the Western hills, but failed to 

 secure the bird I saw, and cannot therefore be certain. 



A female measured : — Length, 93 ; expanse, 130 ; tail, 41 ; 

 wing, 413 ; tarsus, 077 ; bill from gape, ri6 ; weight, l"66oz. 



Legs and feet pale fleshy brown ; upper mandible dark 

 brown ; lower mandible pale fleshy brown ; irides Indian 

 red ; soles yellowish. 



We have this species from Shillong and the Khasi hills, and 

 from Joonkotollee in the Dibrugarh district, but I have no 

 other record as yet of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar. 



[Not very common in the Dibrugarh district, and being more 

 wary than H. psaroides is not easily bagged. A male measured : 

 — Length, 9 90 ; expanse, 130; tail, 4'50 : wing, 440; tarsus, 

 070 ; bill from gape, 1"26 ; weight, 1*25 oz. Irides brick red ; bill 

 dusky above, fleshy beneath ; mouth inside fleshy ; legs and feet 

 dusky purple. — J. K. C. ] 



This occurs in Arakan, but does not, so far as I know, extend 

 to any other part of British Burmah. 



448.— Hemixus flavala, Hodgs. 



This species was very common between Koombiron and 

 Moongba and in the Eerung valley, and I saw it occasionally 



