310 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



is an extremely rare straggler to both Arakan and Pegu, and 

 in Tenasserim I doubt whether it has ever occurred. Ramsay, 

 however, obtained it in Karenee. 



830.— Coturnix coromandelica, Gm.. 



This species was occasionally met with in burnt and half- 

 burnt grass in the central and drier portions of the basin, 

 especially about the bases of the hills. Perhaps I saw 80 from 

 first to last, but of these I saw fully half one day, the 4th 

 March, near Lumshang on the Kanjoop road, when I bagged 

 5 1 couple. On no other occasion did I see more than a couple 

 in the same neighbourhood. 



I have as yet no record of its occurrence anywhere in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar, or even in Arakan (though it is common in 

 Chittagong) or Tenasserim, but it is common in and about 

 Thayetmyo in Upper Pegu, and I have received it from the 

 south of the Bassein district. 



[This species is not so rare as the last, as every season a few 

 brace are shot by planters in the rice stubbles and grass lands 

 round about the station of Dibrugarh. — J. E,. C] 



831— Excalfactoria chinensis, Lin. 



I first saw this in Manipur, in the Kopum Thall, in the Wes- 

 tern hills — a single bird. After that I often met with two or 

 three in different parts of the valley. They were more nu- 

 merous about Soognoo than any other place I visited. I killed 

 six couple and ought to have killed ten had I not been shoot- 

 ing infamously that day. It is found, I think, all over Assam. 

 It is very common in Cachar, less so perhaps, but still common 

 in Sylhet. I have it from Shillong, and God win- Austen says 

 it comes in at Cherrapoonjee about August. He also includes it 

 in his Dafla hill list, and I have it from Sadiya. It is widely 

 distributed throughout British Burmah, but everywhere 

 chiefly, though not exclusively, as a seasonal summer visitant 

 (vide IX, 196 ; X, 236). 



[I looked persistently after this species, but strange to say never 

 came across it in the Dibrugarh district. The short grass-covered 

 lands they frequent cover a large area of the district, especially 

 the churs of the Brahmaputra river, which I have repeatedly 

 beaten over, but never a bird was to be seen. — J. E,. C] 



833. — Turnix plumbipes, Hodgs. 



I think this species must be very scarce in Manipur. I only 

 saw it four times — once in the valley of the Limata in the 



