190 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUE, 



uttered when alarmed, betrays them. They are permanent 

 residents. — J. R. C] 



In British Burmah it occurs everywhere in suitable, i.e., 

 wooded, localities, up to moderate elevations, and Ramsay 

 procured it in Karenee. 



477.--Myiomela leucura, Hodgs. 



Although far from common, I yet met with this in all the 

 higher portions alike of the Eastern and Western hills that 

 I visited. 



The following are exact particulars of two males. Curiously 

 enough I did not come across a single female : — 



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



Legs and feet black to blackish ; soles grey ; bill blackish 

 brown to black, often paler at gape and base of lower man- 

 dible ; irides deep brown. 



I have this species from Shillong and one or two other 

 places in the Khasi hills and also from N.-E. Cachar, and 

 Godwin-Austen obtained it on Tomputu peak of the Dafla 

 hills. 



In British Burmah we only know of its occurrence at 

 8,500 feet and upwards in the higher Tenasserim hills. 

 Ramsay procured it in Karenee. 



481.— Pratincola caprata, Lin. 



Never met with in the hills, but I saw it everywhere about 

 the rice stubbles and banks, and hedges about the houses, in 

 the basin. It is not, however, numerically abundant, and 

 several days often elapsed without my seeing one. 



These Manipur males have less white about them than 

 any other specimen, I think, I have ever seen, scarcely more 

 than the lower tail-coverts and the lesser and median upper 

 tail-coverts. Just the tips of the flank feathers are white, 

 and there are one or two white feathers generally (but not 

 even this at times) about the vent. When these are com- 

 pared with some of the Western birds (apparently, quite 

 adults) with the entire rump, lower breast and abdomen also 

 white, the difference is most striking; but I believe Mr. 

 Sharpe is quite right in retaining all these varying forms, which 

 grade into one another by imperceptible degrees in one species. 



I have this species from N.-E. Cachar, and procured it 

 myself near Karimganj in Sylhet, but beyond this there is 



