266 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



In the hills this was very scarce. This species occurs all 

 over the plains portion of the Assam valley, Sylhet and 

 Cachar, where the country is not too wet and treeless. It is 

 found also in the Garo and Khasi hills, and Godwin-Austen 

 records it from the Dafla hills. In Tenasserim we have only 

 met with this in the southernmost portions of the province. 

 In Lower Pegu it is very common, but it is rare in the upper 

 part of that province. It is also common in Arakan. 



[The "Kat Halik" (Wood Mynah) of the Assamese is 

 common in Dibrugarh, going about in parties and flocks, 

 except during the breeding season. They congregate in flocks 

 about the months of February and March, at which time a 

 great part of the forest trees are in flower, and these birds, 

 with others of the same genera, feed on the nectar and insects 

 to be found in the flowers. The measurements of some are 



Bill from gape. Weight. 



I'O 1-eo 0Z3. 



090 1-30 „ 



10 1-65 „ 



1-05 195 „ 



Irides milky white; legs yellow; bill, base cobalt blue, 

 then grey, shading to yellow at the tips. Young birds 

 just off the nest have the base of the lower mandible 

 livid, and the base of the upper mandible dusky ; the rest of 

 bill dusky yellow ; legs dusky fleshy. On the 27th May 

 I found a nest with three callow young and one fresh &gg. 

 The birds had excavated a hole in a rotten and dead tree 

 about 18 feet from the ground, and had placed a pad of leaves 

 only at the bottom of the hole. They build both in forest 

 as well as the open cultivated parts of the country. — 

 J. R. C] 



6886is. — Sturnia nemoricola, Jerd. 



I shot a great number of S. malaharica, shooting one day 

 what I supposed to be a pair of these near Manipur khas ; 

 the male proved to have one winglet feather in each wing 

 pure white. 



In the basin I never shot another, but observing a pair at 

 Aimole, the first I had seen there, the male proved to be a 

 typical leucoptera, i.e., a pronounced type of nemoricola. In 

 neither case were the females distinguishable from others of 

 malabarica, but as they were in company with single males 

 of nemoricola, and no other birds of either form were any- 

 where near (indeed at Aimole, from first to last I only saw 



