322 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



873.— Rhynchcea capensis, im. 



Occasionally seen in the basin, but the only specimen I 

 happened to preserve was one caught in the Residency Gardens 

 by one of Colonel Johnstone's gardeners. 



It is pretty common in the valley of Assam, especially 

 towards the eastern end, and I observed it myself in both 

 Sylhet and Cachar, besides having previously received speci- 

 mens from these districts, but it is scarce in both of them. 

 Godwin- Austen too records it from the North Khasi hills. 



[Pretty common, and a permanent resident in Dibrugarh. 

 On the road from Khowang to Sessa there was a large lake, 

 the bed of a river years ago, whose shelving sides were clothed 

 with a dense growth of small bushes, and in these was a " sure 

 find " of half a dozen of this species. They are very local in 

 their distribution. — J. R. C] 



It is tolerably common in both Arakan and Pegu in suitable 

 localities, but in Tenasserim it occurs only as a rare straggler. 



875.— Limosa segocephala, Lin. 



Only met with about the Logtak lake and one or two 

 other of the larger j heels, singly and in twos and threes, never 

 in large flocks as is so usual further west. 



I have no certain knowledge of the occurrence of this 

 species anywhere in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, but either 

 this or the smaller eastern representative race, L. melanuroides, 

 Gould., occurs occasionally about Dibrugarh. 



Blyth records this from Arakan. In Pegu I have received 

 it from the Bassein river, and Oates says it is common in the 

 Sittang, and canal and adjacent creeks. In Upper Pegu and 

 Tenasserim it only occurs as a chance straggler. 



877,— Numenius lineatus, Cm. 



There were three Curlew at the Logtak lake that wouldn't 

 be shot at any price. Curlews are often troublesome to 

 circumvent, but it can be accomplished by patience, but these 

 three were entirely too wideawake, and though I tried it on 

 every day I saw them, and there were only these three, 

 sometimes at one part of the lake and sometimes at another, 

 I never got within one hundred yards of them. I never saw 

 any of this species elsewhere in Manipur. 



Nor have I any record of the occurrence of this- Curlew any- 

 where in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. I do not doubt that it 

 occurs in all — I merely mean that I do not Anoio such to be 

 the fact. 



