252 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



party, exclusively of this species, hunting in the half-withered 

 foliage of a recently- felled evergreen oak. 



A rtiale measured : — 



Length, 5*4 ; expanse, 7'5 ; tail, 2*2 ; wing, 2"34 ; tarsus, 0"65 ; 

 bill from gape, 0"5 ; weight, 044oz. Legs and feet orange 

 brown ; bill brown ; irides brown. 



I have this from both the Garo and several localities in 

 the Khasi hills, and Godwin -Austen says that it is common 

 in these and in the Naga hills, and that he obtained one 

 specimen in the Dekrang valley of the Dafla hills, and this 

 is all w^e yet know of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar. It does not, so far as I know, occur anywhere in British 

 Burmah, but it probably does extend to the extreme north 

 of Tenasserim as Ramsay got it in Karenee at 5,200 feet. 



There is a nearly allied species with an ash-grey head, 

 624ien — Staphidea plumbeice'ps, Godwin-Austen, obtained in 

 the Dibrugarh district near Sadiya and Brahmakund, which I 

 have never seen, and of the occurrence of which anywhere 

 within our present limits nothing further is yet known. 



628.— Yuhina nigrimentum, Eodgs, 



I obtained a single specimen of this plain-coloured little Hill 

 Tit, high up on a wooded hill a little north-east of Tankool 

 Hoondoong. I never, that I know, met with it again in any part 

 of Manipnr. 



Godwin- Austen records it from both the Naga and the 

 Shengorh peak of the Dafla hills, but beyond this nothing 

 is known of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British 

 Burmah. 



630,— Herpornis xantholeucus, Bodgs. 



I shot this first in the Eerung valley in the Western hills, 

 and met with it in two or three other places in these, but 

 always below 4,000 feet. I shot another in some low hills 

 close to Phalel in the basin of Manipur, and again on the 

 less elevated portions of the Eastern hills. In Manipur I 

 nowhere saw the bird above 4,000 feet, and it was nowhere 

 at all common, but I saw single specimens or pairs, perhaps 

 a dozen times from first to last. 



The following are details of a male : — 



Length, 5 ; expanse, 8-4; tail, 20; wing, 27; tarsus, 07; 

 bill from gape, 0*62 ; weight, 0'43oz. Legs and feet fleshy 



