260 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUB, 



TiDiversally accepted as valid species, e.g., Culicicapa burkii 

 and tephrocephala. 



We have D. himalayensis from N.-E. Cachar, the Khasi 

 hills and Sadiya, and numerous localities in the Dibrugarh 

 district, and Godwin- Austen includes it in his Dafia hill list, 

 but I know nothing further of its distribution in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. 



[The " Kok-loDg-ah " of the Assamese is common in the 

 Dibrugarh district, where it is found in the well-wooded parts. 

 They commit great havoc among the " mooga " silkworms, 

 which are bred in a semi-wild condition on clumps of the 

 Soom {Machihis odoratissima, Nees) tree. They are very noisy 

 birds, and have a peculiar jerky flight. On the 15th June 1880 

 I found a nest with three fresh eggs. It was fixed in the 

 middle branches of a sapling, about ten feet off the ground, 

 in dense forest, and was built of twigs, presenting a fragile 

 appearance ; the egg cavity was 4| inch and 1 inch deep, 

 and lined with fine twigs and grass roots. At the beginning 

 of May females, when dissected, have the egg yolks well 

 developed. — J. R C] 



Blyth records this species from the Arakan hills, and 

 Ramsay is said to have obtained it in the Tonghoo hills in 

 Karenee, but all our specimens from the hills of Northern 

 and Central Tenasserim are D. assimilis. From Pegu I have 

 as yet seen neither form. 



From Sadiya, Tippook and Dollah, all in the easternmost part 

 of the Dibrugarh district, I have 677. — Dendrociatta frontalis, 

 McClell, and Godwin-Austen records it fromThe Dafla hills, 

 but I never saw it in Manipur, nor have I any further 

 knowledge of its occurrence anywhere in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar, nor does it, I believe, extend to any part of British 

 Burmah. 



Again from Joonkotollee in Dibrugarh I have 681. — Sturnus 

 vulgaris, Lin. There is no mistake about it ; it seemed so 

 out of its range, that I have just turned up the specimens 

 again which were collected (with all my other Khowang and 

 Joonkotollee specimens) by my friend Mr. Cripps. There is no 

 other record of the occurrence of this species, so far as I 

 know, anywhere in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah, 

 and I certainly never saw it in Manipur. 



[Two specimens of this were secured at different times, 

 October 1880 and November 1881, in my flower garden. The 

 soft parts were ; Legs and feet dusky purple ; bill brown. 



