234 LIST OF BIKDS IN MANIPUR, 



Now in all these birds the more or less rich yellowish or 

 greenish olive of the entire upper surface is replaced by a 

 grey, much the same as the grey in the breeding plumage of 

 rosaceus. The wing bands are white, and in two out of the 

 three there is not the faintest trace of any buffy tinge on the 

 lower surface ; on the third there is just a trace of this. These 

 birds look totally unlike maculatus. Out of some hundreds 

 killed at different seasons in all parts of Assam, India and 

 Burmah, I find nothing like them, but the wings, bills, feet, 

 claws, all are those of maculatus — nay the birds are feather for 

 feather the same so far as I can make out ; they differ only in 

 colour, and this will hardly suffice to constitute a species. 

 Still as a variety these birds are very marked, and when I shot 

 the first I thought it must be a new species, until I compared it 

 with two of the ordinary type shot the same day, and failed to 

 discover the slightest difference beyond that of colour. 

 ' I am sorry now I did not go in for shooting Pipits, but I 

 should have had to neglect something else. The other two, 

 like all the other Pipits, were shot by mistake. Still as 

 shooting by accident I got three of these to about thirty of 

 the others, there must apparently be a great number of these 

 grey birds, for I saw thousands of Pipits. 



I procured and saw maculatus of the normal type all over 

 Central Sylhet and Cachar, and have it from various localities 

 in the Khasi hills, and a great many in the Dibrugarh district, 

 and Godwin- Austen notes that it was common in December 

 in the Dafla clearings, but beyond the above I know nothing 

 certain of its distribution in Assam. 



[Very common in Dibrugarh in almost all situations. In 

 the beginning of May they leave, especially after a haavy 

 shower of rain and thunderstorm. — J. R. C] 



In Burmah it occurs everywhere in suitable localities during 

 the cold season. 



I note that I have 597. — Anthus trivialis, Lin., recorded from 

 N.-E. Cachar. I cannot find the specimen, and I suspect some 

 mistake, for there is no other record of it from anywhere 

 in Assam. I never saw it in Manipur, and in all British 

 Burmah I only know of one specimen having occurred, which 

 was obtained by Mr. Gates in the Pegu hills in thick jungle on 

 the 10th of April. 



599.— Oorydalla richardi, Vieill. 



Common in the rice stubbles of the Kopum Thai and the 

 Manipur basin generally. I shot a good many of this and 



