312 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUK, 



834^25.— Turnix maculosa, Tem. 



I only once met with this Quail, and that was in one of the 

 compounds in a suburb of the capital. 



I have no actual knowledge of its occurrence in any part 

 of Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, but Godwin-Austen, misled by 

 Jerdon, records Turnix joudera under the name of 

 T. dussumieri from the Naga hills, and as the Manipur bird 

 and Hill Tipperah birds are all maculosa, I cannot help 

 suspecting that the Naga hill bird must be the same. 



[I shot only two specimens during my stay in Dibrugarh, 

 and they were flushed in a grass field. The bird is decidedly 

 rare. — J. R. C] 



This species occurs everywhere in British Burmah, but is 

 very sparingly distributed in Tenasserim. 



835.— Turnix dussumieri, Tem. 



Of this species also I only obtained a single specimen, and 

 that was in the valley of the Limata in the Western hills. 



I have never seen this from any part of Assam, Sylhet^ 

 Cachar or British Burmah, but Godwin-Austen records it 

 from the Khasi hills, and Gates says he procured a pair at 

 Pegu. 



The Florican, 838. — Sypheotis hengalensisy P. L. S. Mull» 

 does not occur in Manipur, but it is found throughout the 

 entire valley of Assam, from the Manas river on the west 

 to the Mishmi and Abor hills on the east. It does not occur 

 in Cachar, nor I believe, though the contrary has been 

 asserted, in Sylhet, nor does it extend to British Burmah. 



[The " Ooloo-mora " of the Assamese is nowhere numerically 

 common in the Dibrugarh district, but very locally distributed^ 

 and year by year to be found in those same spots. One of 

 these places was the Dibrugarh race course, which has been 

 deserted now, as they were so persistently hunted when once 

 the fact of their being there became known. I knew of 

 four other places in the district, large stretches of grass and 

 paddy lands. They are also occasionally found when beating 

 the churs of the Brahmaputra. — J. R. C] 



Another species, 843.— GZareo/a lactea, Tem., was, I gather, 

 obtained by Godwin-Austen in Sylhet, but I have never yet 

 seen it from any part of Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, nor did I 

 meet with it in Manipur. 



