180 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



It occurs in suitable localities in Arakan, North-eastern, 

 Central and Lower Pegu, and throughout Tenasserim. 



4536is. — Spizixus canifrons, Bly. 



It was only on the Limatol range of the Western hills 



overlooking the basin that I ever saw this species ; even here 



it was rare. It was a bird of which I much wanted a large 



series of good specimens (my Shillong ones being indifferent), 



bat I oaly succeeded in shooting two, both males, of which 



the following are the particulars : — 



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



$ ... 8-7 11-7 4*0 3 75 7 0-8 157 oz. 



., ... 8-8 11'9 39 3-82 0-76 07 1-5 „ 



Legs and feet fleshy or brownish fleshy ; claws brown ; 

 bill yellowish or creamy horny white ; gape black ; irides 

 reddish brown. 



I have a large series from the neighbourhood of Shillong, 

 and Jerdon gave me a specimen shot near Cherrapoonjee, but 

 I know as yet of no other localities in Assam, Sylhet or Oachar, 

 whence it has been recorded, and it does not, I think, extend 

 to British Burmah. 



458. — Rubigula flaviventris, Tick 



This species was pretty common at Kalanaga and Koombiron 

 and in the intervening valley of the Barak, but much less 

 pommon in the Eerung, where H. flavala was the Bulbul. 

 Further east I did not meet with it in the Western hills, nor 

 did I see it in the basin or in the Eastern hills. I only 

 measured one specimen, a male — Length, 80 ; expanse, 110 ; 

 tail, 3'5 ; wing, 3'55 ; tarsus, 07 ; bill from gape, 08; weight, 

 1-1 7oz. 



Legs and feet blackish brown ; bill black ; irides yellowish- 

 white, or, white with a faint yellow tinge. 



I have this from N.-E. Oachar, and Godwin-Austen 

 records it from the Khasi hills, and beyond this I know 

 nothing of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Oachar. It is 

 generally distributed in suitable localities throughout all 

 the provinces of British Burmah, though here and there, as in 

 North-west Pegu, rare or wanting. 



From N.-E. Oachar I have 4f57quat. — Brachypodius 

 eenereiventris, Bly., but I neither met with this nor the 

 doubtfully distinct B. melanoceplialus, Gm., anywhere in 

 Manipur, nor is there any other record of the occurrence of 



