288 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



straight, so that it is always easiest to shoot them flying. 

 I measured several, and may record here the details : — 



Length, Expanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape. Weight. 



Legs and feet varying from fleshy pink to brownish fleshy, 

 commonly browner on joints ; upper and often extreme tip of 

 lower mandible browr, never light, sometimes very deep ; rest 

 of lower mandible, gape and sometimes lateral basal portions of 

 upper mandible also, pale fleshy, pearly grey or horny white ; 

 irides light brown to light hazel ; the hind claw is long, and 

 the spread of foot (1"85 to 1"97 ) considerable. 



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

 Northern Sylhet and many localities in the valley of Assam 

 right up to Sadiya in Dibrugarh, but I never once saw it in 

 Manipur, nor is it known to occur anywhere in British Burmab, 

 except in the lowlands of Arakan lying between the hills and 

 the sea. 



[Pretty common in open cultivated country all over the 

 Dibrugarh district, where they are permanent residents. 

 —J. R C] 



Another species 761. — Calandrella brachydact^la, Leisl., I 

 have from Shillong and also from Joonkotollee in the Dibru- 

 garh district, but I never met with it in Manipur, nor do I 

 know anything further of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar, nor has it as yet been observed in British Burmah. 



[By no means rare in the cold weather when single birds are 

 met with in paddy fields and waste lands. — J. R. C] 



Again another species, 762. — Alamdula raytal, Bly., is com- 

 mon along the course of the Brahmaputra in Assam, though 

 quite how far up towards the head of the valley I do not 

 know, nor am I aware that this occurs, except on the banks 

 and churs of that river, anywhere in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 

 I did not of course get it in Manipur ; there is no large river, 

 with wide belts of pure sand, such as this species requires, 

 and in British Burmah I only know of it on the banks and 

 churs of the Irrawadi in Upper Pegu. 



[This species is confined in Assam to the Brahmaputra and 

 Dehing river beds, as these are sandy and of great expanse. — 

 J. R. C] 



