244 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



it is replaced in Karenee and the higher hills of Central 

 Tenasserim by the closely-allied P. cemlatus, Tick. 



There is another species, 610. — Ptendhins ruflventer, Bly., 

 obtained by Godwin-Austen in the Naga hills, and which is 

 pretty sure to occur in the Manipur hills, but which I never 

 succeeded in finding there, and of the occurrence of which 

 in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah nothing further is 

 known. 



611.— AUotrius melanotis, Hodgs. 



I only procured this on the higher portions of the Eastern 

 hills, and even here it was far from common. This bird has 

 never, I think, been properly described, or the differences 

 between the male and the female correctly pointed out. 

 Jerdon described the male imperfectly, - and described a 

 different species, aianthochloris, as the female. Godwin- Austen 

 described a female (not quite correctly), but without apparently 

 being aware that it was a female and differed widely from the 

 male. 



The adult male has the feathers of both eyelids pure 

 white ; the lores (much overhung by the frontal feathers), and a 

 line completely encircling the white eye-lid ring, black, this line 

 involving the bases of the ear-coverts ; median portion of the 

 ear-coverts bright canary yellow, the tips black, forming a con- 

 spicuous transverse line across the side of the upper neck ; chin, 

 cheeks and throat light to almost deep chestnut ; cap a dull 

 golden olive, sometimes greener, sometimes yellower, brighten- 

 ing to almost pure yellow immediately above the bill ; over the 

 eye a greyish white band, widening and becoming greyer post- 

 eriorly, where it blends with the broad pure grey nape band, 

 a narrow paler line of which runs down behind the trans- 

 verse black band already referred to for about half its length ; 

 the rest of the upper parts are a bright golden olive, varying 

 a good deal in tint in different specimens ; the tail is 

 blackish brown to quite black, the central feathers overlaid 

 with olive, the exterior ones white, and the intermediate 

 ones more or less broadly or narrowly tipped, and often 

 margined on the interior webs towards their tips, with white ; 

 the amount and distribution of the white on these feathers 

 varies at times remarkably. The lesser wing-coverts are 

 dark grey, at times a little washed with the colour of the 

 back ; the median and greater coverts are black ; the median and 

 secondary greater coverts conspicuously tipped with white, 

 forming two district wing bars ; the quills are blackish brown, 



