286 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



I have no record of its occurrence in Assam, Sylliet or 

 Cachar. 



la Tenasserim, we only observed this in the plains country 

 between the Sittang and the Saiween. Blyth gives it from 

 Pegu, but it must be very locally distributed if it does occur 

 there at all, as I have never seen a specimen thence, and 

 Mr. Gates seems never to have met with it. In Arakan it is 

 more common, Ramsay, I may note, obtained it in Karenee. 



727.~Mycerobas melanoxanthus, Hodgs. 



Though always on the look-out for this bird I never saw it 

 until on the return journey on the 29th of May, when descend- 

 ing from the Limatol range into the valley of the Limata, and 

 when still about 1,000 feet above the latter stream, a party 

 of about a dozen birds suddenly passed overhead. I could 

 not tell what they were, and fired, bringing down one which 

 proved to be this species, a female. I am quite certain I never 

 met with these birds before or after in either the Eastern or 

 Western Manipur hills. 



Godwin-Austen, however, received specimens from Koon- 

 chungbum, further north in Manipur. There is no record as yet 

 of the occurrence of this species anywhere in Assam, Sylhet, 

 Cachar or British Burmah. 



From the Khasi hills, Godwin-Austen records 736. — 

 Bcematospiza sipahi, Hodgs., and he notes that the Khasias 

 often capture these birds at Surarim and bring them in for 

 sale to Shillong. This is our unique record of its occurrence 

 anywhere in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah. 



736. — Propyrrhula subhimachala, Jlodgs. 



I never saw this bird anywhere in Manipur, but Godwin- 

 Austen records it from Remta in this state, and it must there- 

 fore be included in this list. 



There is no record of its having ever been observed in any 

 part of Assam, Sylhet, Cachar or British Burmah. 



738.— Carpodacus erythrinus, Pall 



I never observed this in the Western hills (though it is 

 sure to occur there), but found it sparingly distributed all over 

 the Manipur basin, and rather common in the latter half of 

 April and the first half of May in the Eastern hills up -to an 

 elevation of fully 6,000 feet. 



