232 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUE, 



593.^Budytes cinereocapillus, Savi. 



This was common in the Kopum Thai. I saw and shot one 

 in the bed of the Limata (both these in the Western hills), 

 and I think I noticed it about half a dozen times in the basin, 

 where it seemed decidedly rare. 



I did not notice it myself in either Sylhet or Cachar (though 

 it is sure to occur in all suitable localities in both), but I have 

 it from N.-E. Cachar and Shillong, and Godwin-Austen, in his 

 Dafla hill list, says he got it at Narainpur. 



It is extremely common in suitable localities all over 

 Burmah, except in the southernmost portions of Tenasserim, 

 where we did not observe it. Ramsay also is recorded to 

 have procured it in Karenee at 3,000 feet elevation. 



I have recorded 593ier. — Budytes flavus, Lin. (the Indian 

 form, beema, Sykes, dubius, Hodgson) from N.-E. Cachar 

 and from Tippook in the Dibrugarh district, but I did not 

 notice it in Manipur, nor have I any other record as yet of its 

 occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. In British Burmah I 

 only know that it occurs in Southern Pegu, and is common 

 in the southern half of Tenasserim. 



594. — Budytes calcaratus, ffodgs. 



I only once shot this species in Manipur, viz., at the Logtak 

 lake, on the 20th of March. How often I overlooked it taking 

 it for the comparatively common B. citreola I cannot say. 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar, several places in the Dibru- 

 garh district, and the neighbourhood of Gauhatti, and Godwin- 

 Austen records it apparently from the Khasi hills. Beyond 

 this I have no record of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar. 



[Abundant in the cold weather in Dibrugarh in paddy fields 

 and tea gardens. They assume their breeding plumage, and 

 leave by the first week in May. — J. R. C] 



Of its distribution in British Burmah I only know that we 

 obtained a single specimen at Pahpoon in Northern Tenasserim » 



5946is. — Budytes citreola, Pall. 



': Although I met with this all over the Manipur basin it was 

 only about Kokshin Koonoo and Koolel and one or two other 

 places that it was at all common. The fact is that, though 

 the southern half, especially, of the valley, seems peculiarly 

 adapted for these Wagtails, being half swamp and water 



