300 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



Blytb, it is tranqueharieus that occurs, but I should doubt 

 the fact, and suspect that there also it will prove to be humilis. 

 [In June 1879, when in charge of the Bhaman Tea 

 Garden, which is in about the centre of the Dibrugarh district, 

 I saw a male red Turtle Dove, but as I did not bag it I cannot 

 say whether it was tranqusharicus or humilis. — J. R. C] 



798.— Chalcophaps indica, Lin. 



I saw and shot a single female of this species on the 

 western flanks of the Noongzai-ban range, but never again 

 saw it anywhere in Manipur. I have it from N.-E. Cachar, 

 the Garo and Khasi hills and from Khowang in the Dibrugarh 

 district, but this is all I know of its distribution in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. 



[Common and a permanent resident in the well- wooded 

 parts of the Dibrugarh district. The Assamese call it 

 " Matee Koopohoo, " i.e., ground dove. — J. R. C] , 



It is common in suitable localities throughout all the 

 provinces of British Burmah. 



All over the Assam valley, growing scarcer as you approach 

 Sadiya, and not extending anywhere eastwards of this, we^ 

 have 803. — Pavo cristatus, Lin. This species occurs also far 

 into the Garo hills, but, so far as we know, it does not occur 

 in either the Khasi or Naga hills or in Sylhet or Cachar, 

 nor did I see it or hear of it anywhere in Manipur, 



[Old planters assured me that about 20 years ago Peafowl 

 were occasionally seen on the banks of the " Desang " and 

 *' Dehing " rivers, wherever they were well- wooded. The 

 only one of this species that I saw was a male, which belonged 

 to the District Superintendent of Police, who informed me 

 he got it from North Lakhimpur, which lies on the north bank 

 of the Brahmaputra river, Dibrugarh being on the south 

 bank.- J. R. C] 



Throughout British Burmah (and in Chittagong also) this 

 species is replaced by 8036««. — Pavo muticus, Lin., which does 

 not, however, so far as I can ascertain (despite all that has been 

 said to that effect), extend to any part of Assam, Sylhet or 

 Cachar. 



803g'Ma«.— Polyplectrum tibetanum, Gm. 



I only once met with this species in Manipur, and that was 

 in the Jhiri level, where I know from the people that it is 

 common. It extends through the Western hills, they told me 



