302 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



and Mozemah, all pretty close to the Manipur frontier. How- 

 ever, I cannot for the present include this in the Manipur 

 list* 



809his. — Callophasis humise, Sums. 



I have already dealt fully with this species, IX, 461. It is 

 not known as yet to occur anywhere in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar' 

 or British Burmah.-|* 



* As this is pnssing through the Press, Dr. Watts, who visited Manipur 

 the year after I did, informs me that he shot several of these in the N.-E. 

 Manipur hills. — A. 0. H. 



t Long after this was written Godwin-Austen's people procured other specimens 

 of this lovely species, including females, which I failed to secure. Tliese 

 specimens were obtained on the peak of Shiroi furar in North-East Manipur, 

 near the Naga hills boundary. Both sexes are figured. P. Z. S., 1882, 715, and 

 from the letter-press accompanying the plate I quote the following : — 



" Description of Female (in the collection of Godwin-Austen). — Throughout of a 

 pale ochreous brown tint, with a nude red patch surrounding the eye. Above — ■ 

 head rusty brown, each feather with a small subterminal black spot ; the 

 ground colour fades on the back of the neck into pale ruddy ochraceous, each 

 feather having a light spot with a subterminal black band ; these merge into 

 the darker feathers of the nape and upper back, where the above light spot 

 becomes broadly white and triangular or arrowhead-shaped, set in velvet black, 

 the tip of the feather being ashy grey-brown. The lower back and rump is a 

 pale ochre brown, speckled finely with blnck, the feathers having a subterminal 

 large black spot or streak, this becoming larger towards the upper tail-coverts, 

 which are more ruddy ochraceous, with splashes of black brown near tlie 

 webs. The tail is maroon or chestnut, the two central feathers tipped with 

 white, a subterminal black bar three-quarters of an inch from the end, and 

 six imperfect bars of the same colour at the above distance apart, which do not 

 extend across the shaft. The outer tail feathers similar, but with no black 

 on the outer webs, and only a slight indication of the black bar on the margin 

 of the inner web. Below — including side of neck, throat and breast, of a dull 

 pale sienna brown, slightly greyish, some of the feathers on the side of the neck 

 with small black tips. From the upper breast, the sides, thigh-coverts to. the 

 abdomen the feathers have a whitish ochre centre and an edging of the same 

 tint, producing a crescentic barring or ornamentation to those parts ; a few of 

 tlie feathers on the right and left anterior breast have half the web black with 

 a central white bar. Abdomen dull dingy pale ochreous. The under tail-ooverta 

 are mottled, black, white and ruddy brown ; the longer feathers being tipped 

 pure white, succeeded by a black bar, then rich chestnut and black at the base. 

 The scapulars and secondary coverts are on the inner web, more or less velvet 

 black, mottled with the same colour on a sienna ground, on the outer web, 

 narrowly tipped whitish, forming three wing bands (two distinct, one rather 

 broken). The secondaries are mottled in the same manner with four irregular 

 blackish bars crossing every feather, every bar margined on the outside with pale 

 ruddy ochre and margined at the end with pale ochre. The primaries are dark 

 sepia brown, with four elongate ochre spots on the outer web, the inner web 

 at all these points having a mottling of chestnut. Wing greyish within. 

 Dimensions : Wing, 8"25 ; tail, 7"0 ; bill in front, I'O; bill from gape, 1'2 ; tarsus, 

 2*2. " 



The female of this species differs from that of P. EUiotti (its nearest known 

 ally) in wanting the black on the throat und the white underparts that charac- 

 terize both sexes of that species. 



