296 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUE, 



drab ; rest of bill and gape coloured like the feet in some, a 

 pink lake in one ; irides bluish white ; bare lower lid hoary 

 white. 



I have never seen this species myself from any part of Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar, but I have no doubt that this is the unde- 

 termined species that God win- Austen found so numerous in 

 the forests above Garilo (Chota Asalu) in January, and which 

 he says Lieut. Beavan also shot at Molshai in the North 

 Cachar hills. 



In British Burmah this species has as yet only been observed 

 in the higher hills of Central Tenasserim, and in the Karen 

 hills at the extreme north of Tenasserim, 



782. — Alsocomus puniceus, Tick. 



I saw this Pigeon for certain once in the valley of the Eerung, 

 Western hills. I had a careful look at it with binoculars at less 

 than one hundred yards distance, but though it did not leave the 

 place only took short flights of a quarter of a mile or so, and 

 though I followed it for hours until I was dead beat, I never 

 could get within sixty yards. I did get within seventy yards 

 the first time, and fired as it flew off and knocked a lot of 

 feath^jjs out and clearly hit it, but I could not, do all I would, 

 bag tn^.wretch. Once more on the Limatol range, and once 

 again near Aimole / believe, I saw single birds of this species 

 fly past at about 100 yards distance; but I could only catch 

 momentary glimpses of them through the trees and I cannot 

 be sure. 



I have this species from N.-E, Cachar and many places in 

 the Dibrugarh district, and Godwin-Austen found it at the 

 hot saline springs of Namba on the Dunsiri river in April 

 but beyond this I know nothing of its distribution in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. 



[Common, and a permanent resident in Dibrugarh, where it 

 frequents the well-wooded tracts. Some I measured were — 



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



$ 16-0 27-0 6-30 8-90 1-05 I'lO 12-75 ozs. 

 „ .*." 18-10 27-0 6-70 9-10 1-0 10 14-0 „ 

 9 ... 1575 26-0 6-40 8-70 090 1-05 ll'O „ 

 $ .. 15 75 26"25 6 30 8-75 l-O 1-05 13 „ 

 $ 15-50 25-60 6-30 8 55 0*90 1-05 13-60 „ 

 $ . 15-75 26-50 6-50 910 TlO 1-0 18-0 

 16-20 27-75 7-0 9-3C 110 1-10 160 „ 



Bill purplish at base, horny portion bluish green, with a 

 pale tip ; legs and feet pale lake ; claws white ; irides 

 orange and pale orange in some ; eyelids and orbital skin, 

 dull purplish. 



