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511.— Tarsiger chryseus, Ilodgs. 



I shot a single specimen of this close to Tankool Hoondoong, 

 but never again saw it in Manipur. This was a male, apparen tly, 

 though it was in May, solitary. One of my men said he had 

 seen it on the Limatol range of the Western hills, and this is 

 very probable. 



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

 $ ... 60 8-25 2-25 2 7 1«1 71 0-62 oz. 



Legs and feet brownish fleshy ; upper mandible blackish, its 

 edges and lower mandible bright golden yellow ; irides deep 

 brown. 



I have this both from the Khasi hills and from Kohima in the 

 Naga hills (it is strange God win- Austen never got it), but 

 there is no other record of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar, and I do not think it has been observed as yet in any 

 part of British Burmah. 



512.— Calliope camtschatkensis, Gm. 



The Nagas snared a specimen of this for me at Noongba in 

 the Western hills, but I myself saw it nowhere in either these 

 or the Eastern hills, but in the basin I shot six or seven at 

 Buri-bazaar, Bishnoopoor, Kokshin Koolel, and Kokshin Koonoo. 

 I saw it nowhere else and I shot every bird I saw, so that even 

 in the basin it is scarce. I measured by some oversight only a 

 single bird, a male : — Length, 65 ; expanse, 9-3 ; tail, 2*4 ; 

 wing, 2-9 ; tarsus, 1-2 ; bill from gape, 0-8 ; weight, 

 0-77oz. 



Legs and feet livid or purplish fleshy ; bill dusky, pale bluish 

 at gape and base of lower mandible ; irides brown. 



I have this both from N.-E. Cachar and Shillong, but no one 

 else has as yet recorded it from any part of Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar. 



In British Burmah we only know of its occurrence in 

 Arakan, North-western and South-eastern Pegu, and in 

 Northern Tenasserim ; but B^msay also procured it in 

 Karenee. 



I have another species, 513. — Calliope pectoralis, Gould., from 

 Shillong, but I never met with this in Manipur, and except that 

 Godwin- Austen procured it in the Dekrang valley of the Dafla 

 hills, there is no other record of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet 

 or Cachar, nor does it, so far as we yet know, extend to any 

 part of British Burmah. 



