206 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



party, but not yet recorded from elswhere within these 

 limits. 



Seventh, we have 52Q.—Schcenicola fortipes, Hodgs., from 

 Shillong and the Khasi and Naga hills, but which I do not 

 know to have been as yet observed elsewhere in Assam, Sylhet, 

 Cachar or in British Burmah, though Ramsay obtained what I 

 consider to be the young of this species (Neornis assimilis) in 

 Karenee. 



Eighth, I may note 5276w. — Horeites 'pallidus,^ Brooks, also 

 from Shillong, of the occurrence of which likewise in any of 

 these districts and provinces no other record I believe exists. 



530.--Orthotonius sutorius, Penn, 



I did not notice this anywhere in the hills, but in the valley 

 generally it is not rare, fluttering and hopping restlessly about 

 the shrubs and bamboos in gardens and hedgerows. About 

 the lanes of the capital it is excessively common, and I con- 

 stantly shot it by mistake for Prinia rufala. It is very hard to 

 distinguish these tiny birds, only dimly seen, dodging about 

 the leafy recesses of bamboo clumps and thick shrubs and 

 trees. 



I have this from all parts of the valley of Assam to beyond 

 Sadiya, from many places in Sylhet and Cachar, and from the 

 Garo and Khasi hills. From the Naga hills I have not seen it. 



[Common about villages, tea gardens, and thin tree and 

 scrub jungle in the Dibrugarh district. It is a permanent 

 resident. — J. R C] 



It is generally distributed throughout the more open country 

 of British Burmah in suitable localities. 



Godwin- Austen records BSOhis. — Orthotomus atrigularis, 

 Tem., both from Shushang at the base of the Garo hills, and 

 from the forests of the Dunsiri near Dimapur in the Naga 

 hills, but I know nothing further as to its occurrence in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. I have not seen it from Arakan or Northern 

 Pegu, but it occurs in Southern Pegu and pretty well (of 

 course in suitable localities) throughout Tenasserim. 



* This is ODe of the species Mr.. Seebohra wrongly lumps with Horeites 

 /ortipes, but there is some excuse for this, but it is simply laughable to see 

 S- irunnesoens also lumped with fortipes, from which it is more different 

 than is a jackdaw from a carrion crow. When about lumping Mr. Seebohm 

 might have thrown in the very marked Tribura erythrogenys which he seems 

 to have omitted altogether. 



