202 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



I was SO far lucky that I dropped this first bird which turned 

 out to be the present species, but I never got a second either 

 on that day or subsequently. They may not perhaps have 

 been rare, but I had no time to look for these skulks and 

 never noticed this species on any other occasion; 



A male: — Length, 5'3 ; expanse, 6'82 ; tail, 2*1 ; wing, 2'2 ; 

 tarsus, 0'8 ; bill from gape, 0*65 ; weight, 0'27oz. 



Legs and feet yellowish-brown with a fleshy tinge, yellower 

 on toes and soles and browner on claws ; upper mandible 

 and tip of lower dusky brown ; rest of lower mandible and 

 gape fleshy yellow ; irides dark brown. 



There is no record of the occurrence of this species any- 

 where in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar, and even in British 

 Burmah all we know is that we procured it near Tavoy in 

 Tenasserim, and that Gates has found it very common in the 

 cold season near Kyeikpadein a little south of the town 

 of Pegu. 



518. — Arundinax sedon, Pall. 



In and about Ghundrakong, in the eastern portion of the 

 Manipur basin, near the bases of the hills, this was by no 

 means rare, and yet strange to say I never once saw it any- 

 where else in Manipur, I suppose I must have overlooked 

 it, but the fact remains that at Ghundrakong I saw a dozen 

 and shot three, and at no other place did I see a single bird 

 of this species from first to last. 



I have this from the Khasi hills and from Joonkotollee 

 in the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin- Austen records it 

 from Ghatak in Northern Gachar, but beyond this I have no 

 certain knowledge of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet and 

 Gachar. 



[One specimen only, and that a male, was shot by me in 

 Dibrugarh. No doubt, more would have turned up had I looked 

 out for them, but the ground they affect is, in Assam, so 

 frequently found to be treacherous morasses, where one sinks 

 to his middle, that I gave them up as a bad job. — J. R. G.] 



In Tenasserim it is generally distributed in the more open 

 portions of the province. In Pegu I only know of its occur- 

 rence near Prome and the south of this, and Blyth records 

 it from Arakan. 



Assam has another species that I never met with in 

 Manipur, and which I now, for the first time I believe, record 

 as pertaining to the British Asian Avifauna, and that is 

 ^l^quat. — JJomochlamys canturiens, Swinh., which I procured 



