224 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



The legs and feet are a dull pale green, sometimes a little 

 brownish, and the feet often rather paler than the tarsi ; claws 

 generally a pale brownish green and soles yellow ; upper 

 mandible blackish ; tip of lower brown ; rest of lower mandible 

 and gape yellow ; irides deep brown. 



I have this from Shillong, and Godwin- Austen procured it 

 in the Naga hills, and this is all I know as to its occurrence in 

 Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. 



In British Burmah I only know of its occurrence at Mooleyit 

 in Central Tenasserim at 5,000 feet and upwards, but Ramsay 

 obtained it in Karenee at only 3,000 feet. 



569.— Oryptolopha burkii, Burt. 



I got only two specimens of this in Manipur — one in the 

 Eerung valley in the Western hills, where it was rather 

 common, and one in the low hills east of Phalel in the eastern 

 portion of the basin. I saw it once, I think, below Aimole in 

 the Elastern hills, but preserved no specimen there. It is 

 certainly not common in Manipur. My specimens must be 

 classed as hurldi, as they are nearest this, but they have rather 

 more grey about the head than Sikhim examples, though not 

 nearly so much as in tephrocephala, and the bills too are 

 intermediate in size. 



A female measured : — Length, 4'6 ; expanse, 6'5 ; tail, 1'8 ; 

 wing, 21 ; tarsus, 078 ; bill from gape, 0"53 ; weight, 0'24oz. 

 Legs and feet yellowish brown, in another dull wax yellow ; 

 upper mandible deep brown, or blackish ; lower, in one pale 

 yellowish brown, in the other brownish wax yellow ; irides 

 hazel, in the other brown. 



Jerdon omits to notice the conspicuous yellow eyelid ring, 

 and he describes the tail wrong. The inner webs of the two 

 outer tail-feathers on each side are nearly all white, also the 

 terminal half (more or less) of the inner web of the third fea- 

 ther (counting from outside) on each side. 



I shot this in the station of Silchar in January, and have it 

 from Northern Sylhet and Northern Cachar, Shillong and 

 Joonkotollee in Dibrugarh, and Godwin- Austen records it from 

 Asalu, but beyond this I have no information as to its distribu- 

 tion in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



Blyth records it from Arakan, but the very closely allied 

 tephrocephala, which, rei^laces burJcii throughout Pegu and in 

 Northern and Central Tenasserim, had not then been discri- 

 minated, and it may be this form and not burJdi that occurs 

 in Arakan. 



