308 List of birds in manipur, 



full, soft whistle, wliich some of the Nagas can imitate admir- 

 ably, and thus make all the birds in the neighbourhood, if 

 there be any, reply and announce their whereabouts. 

 The following are measurements : — 



Length, Expanse. Tail. Wing, Tar.^us. Bill from gape. Weight. 



$ ... 11-2 19 2 2 5 75 1-85 0-95 12 ozs. • 



„ ... 11-3 190 2-8 5-55 1-72 l-Q 12 „ 



„ ... 12-6 187 2-8 5 76 183 r03 13 „ 



N.B. — I measured three females also, but they are not to 

 be found. 



Legs and feet coral pink ; claws, sometimes the same, brown- 

 ish at their edges, sometimes more of an orange ; bill black ; 

 gape, eyelids and bare orbital space dull lake to dull crimson ; 

 irides light brown to dull hazel. 



Godwin-Austen procured this in the Northern Cachar and 

 Naga hills, but I know nothing further of its occurrence in 

 Assam, Sylhet and Cachar. It seems to oc3ur throughout the 

 Arakan hills, but not to cross the Irrawaddy eastwards into 

 Pegu or Tenasserim, where A. brunneipecliis and chloropus are 

 the common species, but in Independant Burmah it turns up 

 again, as I have specimens from Bhamo. 



S2bquinL — Bambusicola fytchii, A nders. 



First at Aimole and then at Matchi in the Eastern hills 

 I caught single specimens of this species in hedge snares that 

 I had set for any ground birds, but specially for Arboiicolas 

 and Kalij. As I caught only two of this species to about 

 one hundred, more or less, of the other two species, I suppose 

 it is rare. I never saw it anywhere, except on these two 

 occasions after it had been snared. 



The following are particulars of the two specimens I 



obtained : — 



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



$ ... 13-7 18-1 4-6 5-7 2-0 O'S 12 ozs. 



$ ... 13-5 18-3 4-32 58 17 077 12 „ 



iH/a/g.— Legs and feet pale brownish grey, or drab grey, the toes 

 slightly darker than the tarsi, the latter with the faintest 

 olivaceous shade ; upper mandible deep brown ; lower mandible 

 brown ; irides orange hazel. 



Female. — Legs and feet pale French grey, vi^ith a green shade 

 most marked on the tarsi ; bill dull horny brown, yellowish 

 at extreme tips ; irides dull hazel red. 



The male and female only differ in plumage (as I pointed 

 out in the " Game Birds "), in that the dark stripe behind the 

 eye formed by the tips of the ear-coverts is in the male 



