294 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



cere and bare lores and orbital skin (the latter rather duller 

 and more leaden in females) pale smalt blue; irides normally, 

 inner ring blue, outer pink to coral red, but in a good many 

 pale reddish orange or orange buff. 



I have this species from near Sadiya in the Dibrugarh 

 district, and Godwin-Austen records it from the Khasi hills. 

 Beyond this I have no certain knowledge of its occurrence 

 in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[ On several occasions when going about the " Desang " river 

 near Joonkotollee I have seen parties of this species along the 

 banks, but they kept to the tops of the highest trees, and I 

 only managed to secure one. 



Length, Expanse. Tail Wing. Tarsus. Bill from ga'pe. Weight. 



i ... 160 20-25 760 6-60 10 0-90 9 25 oz3. 



Bill smalt blue, horny portion bluish white ; legs and feet 

 crimson pink ; irides buffy pink with an inner circle of pale 

 bright blue. In the cold weather these birds used to come 

 down into the plains for a short distance from the Naga hills. 

 I never noticed them in the rains. — J. R. C. ] 



In British Burmah I only as yet know of the occurrence of this 

 species in the hill forests of Northern and Central Tenasserim. 



780.— Carpophaga senea, Lin, 



I both saw and heard this species in the Jhiri level, and though 

 I failed to shoot a specimen (my gun missed fire at a very fair 

 shot), it is a bird with which I am quite familiar, and which is 

 quite unmistakable, but after crossing the Jhiri level and the 

 Noongzai-ban ridge I never again met with it, and though I 

 thought I heard it in the Barak valley, it was a mile away and 

 I cannot be certain. 



I have this from N.-E. Cachar, Dollah and Khowang in the 

 Dibrugarh district, and Godwin-Austen gives it from the 

 Garo hills, and says it was in enormous numbers at the hot 

 saline springs of Namba on the Dunsiri river, and this is all 

 I know of it in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[This species is common in the well-wooded portions of the 

 Dibrugarh district, where it is called " Purgoomba" by the 

 Assamese. Those I measured were : — 



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



„ 17-30 28-80 6-50 9*40 1-05 1'45 I7 60ozs, 



.. 16-75 27-50 6-25 9-10 110 1*32 16 „ 



. 16 60 28*25 60 9-20 MO 1-30 15*50 „ 



. 16-75 28*50 6-25 9-45 1 10 1-35 160 „ 



. 17-80 30-50 660 9-50 1-12 1-40 180 „ 



..17-20 30-0 6 30 9-55 115 1'15 18-20 „ 



