200 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



514.— Cyanecula suecica, Lin. 



Very sparingly distributed about the Manipur basin, and 

 never seen in the hills on either side. I only preserved a couple, 

 and I do not think I saw a dozen from first to last. 



I met with this in various parts of Sylhet from Lukkhai to 

 Kareem Gunje, and again in Cachar, and I have received it from 

 N.-E. Cachar and from Joonkotollee, Dibrugarh, and this is all 

 I know for certain of its occurrence in Assam, <S;c. 



[Doubtless this species is not very rare in Dibrugarh during 

 the cold weather, but being great skulks they are overlooked. 

 The three specimens I got were shot while dodging about the 

 pea rows in my garden. — J. R. C] 



It occurs in suitable localities throughout British Burmah, 

 except in the southern portion of Tenasserim, to which I do not 

 think it extends. 



5156is.-- Acrocephalus orientalis, Tern. & Schl. 



This species was not very rare about the reeds of the Logtak 

 lake, but I saw it nowhere else in Manipur, and I had such 

 multitudes of birds to attend to there that unfortunately I only 

 preserved a single specimen. This, however, is in fine plumage, 

 and well marked. 



There is no record as yet of the occurrence of this species or 

 of the nearly allied A. stentorius anywhere in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar. 



[I secured only one specimen in Dibrugarh, and that, a male, 

 was shot in some reed jungle on the banks of the Desang 

 river.— J. R. C] 



Blyth records stentorius from Arakan, and this is probably 

 correct, though it is doubtful whether he distinguished between 

 this and orientalis, since both occur in Central Pegu, but in 

 Central and Southern Tenasserim it is orientalis that occurs. 



In and about Balaganj, Fenchuganj and Karimganj in 

 Central Sylhet, and between the latter and Silchar, and at the 

 latter, I procured 516. — Acrocepkalus dumetorum, Bly., but 

 except that Godwin- Austen records it from Chatak in North 

 Sylhet, there is no other record of its occurrence anywhere in 

 Assam, Sylhet and Cachar, this being a kind of bird ordinary 

 collectors fight shy of. 



It extends Jide Blyth to Arakan, and certainly occurs in 

 many parts of Pegu, but I am not aware that it has yet 

 been observed (though I should expect it to occur there) in 

 Tenasserim. 



