268 -LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIFUE, 



Sylhet or Cachar. This species occurs in Arakan and the 

 southern half of Tenasserim, but not so far as I know in PegM 

 or Northern Tenasserim. 



691.— Sarraglossa spiloptera, Vig. 



I saw a few of these on the western slope of the Noongzai- 

 ban ridge, but did not shoot any, I had so many birds, and 

 thereafter I never once met with this species in Manipur, 

 and I doubt whether it occurs there, as it is a very marked 

 and unmistakeable bird, and I should surely have noticed 

 it. 



I have this species from N.-E. Cachar and from Joonkotollee 

 in the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin-Austen records it 

 from the Garo hills, but beyond that I have no exact knowledge 

 of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[In the cold weather this species is seen in good-sized flocks 

 in the well-wooded portions of the Dibrugarh district. When 

 not feeding these birds are very wary, and fly well out of 

 of range. Their food consists of insects which they find in 

 the flowers of the forest trees, red tree ants, and berries. In 

 adults the bill is black, gape and base of lower mandible 

 yellow ; in young birds horny brown, with the gape and 

 lower mandible (base ) yellow ; legs black in adults, horny 

 brown in the young ; irides creamy white. — J. R. C] 



In British Bunnah I only know for certain of its occurrence 

 near Eangoon, and one or two other places in Lower Pegu, 

 and in the Karen hills at the extreme north of Tenasserim. 

 But it has been said to have been obtained at Mooleyit in 

 Central Tenasserim, where however we failed to observe 

 it. 



693. — Eulabes javanensis, Osb. 



This species was very numerous in the Jhiri level between 

 Jhiri Ghat and the Noongzai-ban ridge, in small parties flying 

 about from tree top to tree top, or perched on the higher 

 bare branches of very tall forest trees. But this too I never 

 again saw in Manipur after crossing the Noongzai-ban 

 ridge. 



I have this from Northern Sylhet, N.-E. Cachar, Shillong, 

 and other places in the Khasi hills, Sadiya and many other 

 places in the Dibrugarh district, but this is all I know of its 

 occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. It is common in all 

 suitable localities throughout British Burmah. 



