274 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



West Khasi hills (I never received it from Shillong), but this is 

 all I know of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet and 

 Cachar. 



[Nowhere numerically common, but during the rains a few 

 pairs are generally seen in the more open parts. They are 

 very fond of feeding on the roads. I never was able to find 

 a nest of this species. — J. K. C] 



It occurs in suitable localities in all the provinces of British 

 Burmah, but seems rare or wanting in the extreme south of 

 Pegu. 



West of new Karimganj,* and indeed in several other 

 places in Sylhet and Cachar, I observed and shot 704. — 

 Estrelda amandava, Lin., and Godwin-Austen records it from 

 the Khasi hills, but I never met with it in Manipur, nor have 

 I any farther knowledge of its distribution in Assam, while in 

 parts of Pegu and the parts of Tenasserim lying between the 

 Salween and the Sittang, it is replaced by E. hurmanica, 

 nobis, identical, according to Ramsay, with E. fiavidiventris, 

 Wallace. 



[The only occasions on which I saw small parties of this 

 species was when out after big game on the " churs " of the 

 Brahmaputra river in the Dibrugarh district, and again in the 

 large tracts of grass country near the Moran Tea Garden and 

 Jaipur, during the cold weather. — J. R. C] 



Another species that I failed to notice in Manipur was 

 706. — Passer doviesticus, Lin. (or P. indicus, J. & S., for 

 those who prefer it). I have this from several places in the 

 Dibrugarh district, and Godwin- Austen gives it, I gather, from 

 the Garo hills, and includes it in his Dafla hill list, doubtless 

 from the country at the bases of these. Beyond this I have 

 no note of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[Common in. the Dibrugarh district wherever there are 

 human habitations, especially in the station of Dibrugarh, but 

 not so abundant as Passer montanus. The Assamese call the 

 sparrow " Ghun Suroee." — J. R. C] 



In parts of Arakan and the greater part of Pegu this is 

 common, but in Tenasserim it is extremely rare, and occurs there 

 only, I believe, as a chance visitant. In the course of four years 

 collecting we only twice met with it. 



* I happened to measure one of the specimens I shot here, and may note 

 the particulars. Female: — Length. 44; expense, 62; tail, TG; wing, 1'35 ; 

 tarsus, 0-55; hill from gape, 0'35 ; weight, 0-35oz. Length and feet very pale 

 fleshy ; bill red, blackish oa culmen and gonys ; iiides orange red. 



