246 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. We do not Icnoio that it extends 

 to any part of British Burmah, but Ramsay procured it in 

 Karenee at 6,000 feet. 



613.— Lioptila annectans, Bly. 



Only seen in the higher portions of the Eastern hills from 

 an elevation of 4,500 feet upwards, but common there. They 

 creep about the branches of large trees in forest, very much 

 like creepers, though neither quite so rapid or jerky in their 

 movements. 



In most of these Liotrichine birds there is a difference, 

 slight but sufficient, (though at times only of a single feather) 

 in the plumage of the two sexes ; but in this species I can 

 discover none, and the consequence was that, though 1 measured 

 a great many, all I measured proved to be males. It seems 

 sufficient to reproduce the details of six of these : — 



Legs and feet wax yellow ; claws, more or less of them, 

 brownish ; bill black ; gape and more or less (from ^ to f ) 

 of basal portion of lower mandible yellow ; irides chocolate, 

 brownish chocolate, brownish maroon, claret red, greyish choco- 

 late brown. 



Jerdon's description is not only incomplete but downright 

 wrong in several particulars. 



The lores, forehead, crown, occiput, cheeks, ear-coverts, back 

 and upper halves of sides of neck, and a very broad band run- 

 ning down each side of the back to about the middle of the 

 back, black ; the nape and back of neck streaked with white ; 

 the middle of the upper back, the whole of the lower back, 

 rump and upper tail- coverts, a rich ferruginous chestnut ; sca- 

 pulars, on to which the black bands descend, a pale more or 

 less rusty buff ; wings black ; lesser and median coverts more or 

 less (it varies very much) fringed at the tips with grey ; greater 

 secondary coverts tipped with light chesnut ; quills, except 

 tertiaries, conspicuously margined on their outer webs with 

 grey ; tertiaries tinged with chestnut on their outer webs 

 towards their bases and margined elsewhere with white ; tail 

 black; all but the central feathers (and these even often show 

 a trace of it) tipped with white, each feather, as they recede 



