184 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



I have only to add that the two latter run into each other, 

 and the last so into the capped group that of numbers of 

 specimens it is quite a toss-up where to locate them. 



With this key and my previous remarks (S. F., Ill, 126) no 

 separate description of M. burmanicus seems needed. 



I first met with this species at Kalanaga, and thereafter saw 

 it throughout the Western hills. In the Manipur basin ic 

 was excessively common, associating with Otocompsa emeria, 

 but in the Eastern hills they seemed rather less numerous. 



Mr. Sharpe says that this species extends from Cachar to 

 Pegu, and stragglers may find their way into Cachar ; but all 

 the specimens I got there, all sent me from N.-E, Cachar, 

 Cherrapoonjee, Shillong, and Northern Sylhet, and all I got in 

 Sylhet are either pygwus, or a form intermediate between this 

 and intermedius. 



This species occurs throughout the more level portions of 

 Pegu, and possibly in Arakan, but Blyth says that specimens 

 from the latter are identical with hoemorrhous, which is hardly 

 likely. Rangoon examples are, Lord Walden said, pygceus, but 

 all our specimens thence are burmanicus. But in Tenasserim 

 this species is replaced by nigripileus and atricapillus. 



4:QZbis. — Phyllornis chlorocephalus, Wald. 



I found this species common in the Jhiri level, and again 

 in the valley of the Eerung (specimens precisely like 

 Burmese ones), but beyond this valley I never again met with 

 it in Manipur, and I think that had it occurred there I must 

 have noticed it in the Eastern hills. 



It seems to be commonly a bird of the low, damp, hot valleys, 

 replaced higher up by P. hardwicJdi. 



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

 it from Diniapur on the Dunsiri river, and from the Kylas 

 peak or Chickmung of the Garo hills, and this is all I yet 

 know of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



It occurs in suitable localities in Arakan, Eastern Pegu and 

 Karenee, and is very common throughout Tenasserim. 



465.— Phyllornis aurifrons, Tern. 



I saw this a few times in the western portions of the 

 Western hills, but only preserved one specimen, a male, which 

 I shot on the slopes of the Eerung valley, 



I never met with it in the more eastern portions of the 

 Western hills, nor in the basin, nor in the Eastern hills. 

 But all the species of Phyllornis keep very much to the tops 

 of the highest trees, and despite their brilliant colours when 

 in the hand are very easily overlooked. 



