178 LIST OF BIEDS IN MANIPUE, 



451.— Criniger flaveolus, Gould. 



This is by far the commonest of all the Bulbuls between 

 Jhiri ghat and Noongzai-ban, and again in the valley of the 

 Barak between Kalanaga and Koombiron. And here I was 

 constantly shooting it by mistake, owing to its inveterate 

 habit of skulking about in the inside of dense shrubs and 

 low trees completely veiled in dense sheets of creepers, where 

 in the dim religious twilight of the inner recesses it is im- 

 possible to make out to what species a slouching bird, of 

 which one catches a momentary glimpse, belongs. 



Once more I got it in the valley of the Limata, but never 

 once met with it either in the basin or on the Eastern hills. 



The following are particulars of three specimens : — 



Legs and feet silvery grey, pale leaden grey, pale fleshy 

 brown ; bill pale horny to leaden blue ; irides brown. 



We have this species from N.-E. Cachar and from Sadiya, 

 and a dozen other localities in the Dibrugarh district, but 

 not from the Khasi hills. But Godwin-Austen appears to 

 have got it there (in some low valley I suppose), and he 

 notes that it was very abundant in the lower ground about 

 Harmutti and Harjuli, below the Dafla hills. 



I know nothing further of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet 

 or Cachar. 



[Very common, indeed, in Dibrugarhin heavy forest only, where 

 it keeps to the undergrowth. By the middle of May yolks have 

 formed in the ovaries of most of the females. Their food 

 consists principally of berries, both soft and hard. — J. R. C] 



Blyth records this from Arakan and Tenasserim ; it may 

 occur in Arakan, and has, Oates says, been actually shot near 

 Tonghoo, but everywhere along the eastern slopes of the 

 Pegu hills in Karenee and Northern and Central Tenasserim 

 proper it is replaced by Criniger griseiceps, nobis. 



Godwin-Austen apparently records 451qwint. — Criniger 

 ewptilosus, Jard. and Selb. { = Criniger tristis, Blyth) from the 

 Khasi hills, but there is no other record of its occurrence in 

 Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, and the species seems out of its range 

 here, as even in British Burmah it is only in the extreme 

 south of Tenasserim that it has occurred. But perhaps he 

 does not mean this species ; he says Ixus tristis, Blyth. So 



