256 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



I have this from several parts of the Khasi hills, but I 

 have no record of its occurrence elsewhere in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar, and in British Burmah I only know of 

 its having been obtained in the higher hills of Central Tenas- 

 gerim, though Ramsay, I may note, obtained it in Karenee, 

 at only 3,000 feet elevation. In Manipur I did not see it 

 much, if at all, below 5,000 feet. 



650.— Melanochlora sultanea, Hodgs. 



Occasionally seen throughout the Western and Eastern 

 hills, from low down in the valleys of the Barak and Eerung 

 to the highest parts of the hills I visited, but nowhere 

 numerically abundant. 



A male measured : — 



Length, 84; expanse, 130; tail, 3"95 ; wing, 4-25 ; tarsus, 

 09 ; bill from gape, 0*7 ; weight, l'38ozs. Legs and feet dull 

 leaden blue ; bill black ; irides dark brown. 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar, the Khasi hills and 

 numerous localities in the Dibrugarh district, and with these 

 localities ends my knowledge of its distribution in Assam, 

 Sylhet and Cachar. 



[Common in Dibrugarh in suitable localities, i.e., forest 

 tracts, where they flit about in small parties and in pairs. 



Length. Expanse, Tail. Wing. Tarsus, Bill from gape. Weight. 



$. ... 8-25 12-75 4-0 4 30 0-85 0-70 1-35 ozs. 



„ 7-90 12-50 370 4-15 0-86 0-65 125 „ 



$ ... 7-40 11-85 3-66 4*0 085 067 1-28 „ 



Irides reddish brown ; legs and feet plumbeous ; bill black, — 

 J. R. C] 



It occurs, everywhere rather sparingly I believe, in Arakan, 

 in all the Pegu hills, and throughout Tenasserim, and Ramsay 

 obtained it in Karenee. 



660— Oorvus macrorhynchus, Wagl. 



This, the only Crow in Manipur, is pretty common in the 

 basin and the Kopum Thai, but scarce in most parts of the hills. 



I got one male, apparently full grown — (Length, 20 '0 ; expanse, 

 36-0 ; tail, 7*2 ; wing, 121 ; tarsud, 2-4 ; bill from gape, 2*55 ;' 

 weight, lib. 8oz.) — with the basal portion of the lower mandi- 

 ble, the gape and a bare band inside each ramus of the 

 lower mandible fully one-eighth of an inch wide, a delicate 

 pinky flesh colour, and the irides silvery grey. Of course 

 usually all the parts above described as pink are black and 

 the irides brown. 



