258 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



to have seen it in the Eastern hills, a little north of Tankool 

 Hoondoong, is 671. — Urocissa occipitalis, Bly., which Godwin- 

 Austen procured at Sekhamih in the Naga hills at 5, 000 feet 

 in February. I say occipitalis, because I doubt the claim of 

 magnirostris, Bly., to specific rank. Otherwise the Naga hill 

 bird is said to have belonged to this latter race. Neither 

 form has been elsewhere, observed in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar 

 so far as I yet know, but the so called magnirostris occurs in 

 Arakan, Northern (not I believe Southern) Pegu, and Northern 

 and Central Tenasserim. 



673.--Oissachinensis, Bodd. 



I never saw this species either in the Eastern hills or in any 

 part of the basin, and in the Western hills, though I saw it 

 three times, I only once succeeded in shooting a specimen, 

 and that was one of a pair, and between Kalanaga and 

 Koombiron. This specimen killed 5th February is a mcile 

 in perfect brilliant chrysophase green plumage, with every 

 feather perfect. I dare say I have shot a hundred of these 

 in my time, and yet this is the first absolutely perfect bird I 

 ever myself procured. 



The following are particulars :— 



Length, 153; expanse, 17"5 ; tail, 79; wing, 56; tarsus, 

 1-7 ; bill from gape, 1'45 ; weight, 7ozs. 



1st lateral pair 1'45 shorter than central tail feathers. 

 2nd „ 215 „ „ „ 



3rd „ 2-65 



4th „ 3-3 „ „ „ 



5th „ 405 „ „ „ 



Bill, eyelid ring, legs and feet vermilion ; claws and soles 

 more orange ; irides dull crimson. 



I have received this species from N.-E. Cachar, 

 God win- Austen seems to have obtained one at Cherrapoonjee, 

 and he includes it in his Dafla hill list, but beyond this I 

 have no information as to its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar. 



[On two occasions, while nearing the station of Jaipur in 

 Dibrugarh, I saw small parties of this species in some scrub 

 jungle that bordered the road. There was no mistaking it, 

 as I know the bird well, having shot it in Sylhet. A low 

 range of hills are near Jaipur. — J. R. C] 



This species occurs in the Arakan hills, throughout the 

 Pegu hills, and in Northern and Central Tenasserim, 



