186 lilST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUE, 



numerically abundant. I never saw this anywhere in either 

 the Eastern or Western hills, though I shot one or two just 

 at the bases of the latter. 



I found this in many places in Sylhet and Cachar, and have 

 it from Northern Sylhet and N.-E. Cachar, Avhich I did not 

 visit, also from near Gauhatti, Tezpur, Sadiya and many 

 localities in the Dibrugarh district. Godwin-Austen includes 

 it without remarks in both his Khasi and Dafla hill lists, but 

 I think his birds must have come from near or below their 

 bases, or from some low valley, as I do not think this is at all 

 a hill bird, nor do I think it commonly or normally ascends 

 above 2,500 to 3,000 feet. 



[Generally distributed in Dibrugarh and Sibsagar, where it 

 frequents thin forest and the vicinity of villages and tea 

 gardens, but nowhere numerically common. By the end of 

 May, on dissection, they show signs of breeding. — J. R. C] 



It is common in all suitable localities throughout the plains 

 country of British Burmah. 



469. — Irena puella, Lath. 



This species was very common in the low-lying heavy forest 

 between Jhiri ghat and Noongzai-ban, flying about in small 

 parties in the tops of the highest and medium- sized trees and 

 keeping up a constant " chirik, chirik," but after we had once 

 crossed the Noongzai-ban ridge I never again met with it. 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar and several places in 

 the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin-Austen includes it in 

 his Khasi and Dafla hill lists, probably from low-lying ever- 

 green forests in the interior valleys of the former and near 

 the bases of the latter. At present I know nothing further 

 of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 



[Fairly common in the densely forest-clad parts of the 

 Dibrugarh district, but by no means so abundant, as in the 

 hills towards Borhat and Namsang. They are difficult to bag, 

 not only owing to the heavy forest, but the high trees they 

 frequent. — J. R. C] 



It is widely spread throughout every province of British 

 Burmah, in suitable localities, always understood, for it is 

 essentially a bird of the evergreen forests. 



471.— Oriolus indicus, Jerd. 



I only twice saw this species in Manipur. First at Kokshin 

 Koolel, in the south-east of the basin, a single adult male which I 

 shot, and second near Matchi at fully 5,000 feet elevation, wher^ 



