'290 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUE, 



Sadiya, Khowang and Joonkotollee in the Dibrugarli district, 

 and Godwin- Austen remarks that it was not uncommon in 

 the Dunsiri forest between Deenapur and Golaghat, and that 

 he shot it again on the road to Shillong near Gauhatti. I 

 have no further exact details of its occurrence in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. 



[Very common, indeed, in the well- wooded portions of the 

 Dibrugarh district. They go about in parties of from 10 to 

 40, having a very swift flight, but very little in the way of shot 

 brings them down. When feeding they are not easily frighten- 

 ed, and I have often remained for. over an hour under a tree, 

 having shots as opportunity offered. — J. R. C] 



It occurs in suitable localities in all the provinces of British 

 Burmah, but of course there are wide tracts, especially in Pegu, 

 where the station is unsuited to its habits, and where it is 

 never seen. 



1772. — Crocopus phoenicopteruSy Lath.* 



The"Haitha" of the Assamese is common in Dibrugarh, 

 and is not so strictly confined to primeval forest as the last 

 species. They are permanent residents, and go about in 

 pairs, and small parties of seldom over a dozen in number. 

 —J. R. C] 



7736w.— Crocopus viridifrons, Ely. 



I never myself saw this alive in Manipur, but one of our 

 men shot one in the Jhiri level, and it must, therefore, be 

 included in our list. 



We have it from N.-E. Cachar, and Godwin- Austen gives 

 it from the Khasi hills, and includes it in his Dafla hill list, 

 and this is all I yet know of its distribution in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. 



This species occurs in the more thinly- wooded plains portion 

 of Central and Northern Tena^serim and in the greater part of 

 Pegu, but I have not seen it yet from Arakan or the south- 

 western portions of Pegu, though I know it occurs as far south 

 as Bassein at any rate. 



* I omitted this species purposely. It has been said to occur in suitable 

 localities, though everywhere sparsely, throughout the well- wooded portions of the 

 valley of Assam, north of the Brahmaputra, but I have never myself examined 

 specimens, and the only specimens ever examined, so far as I know, by a com- 

 petent ornithologist from any part of this tract were pronounced by him (God- 

 win-Austen) to be viridifrons, and I am not at all sure that Mr. Cripps realizes 

 the very alight differences between the two species. — A. 0, H. 



