328 LIST OP BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



overgrown with a species of grass that grows during the rains 

 to a height of four feet. None of the planters knew the bird, 

 and they thought I was hoaxing them when I mentioned that 

 it was very good eating. — J. R. C] 



In Northern and Central Tenasserim, Pegu and Arakan, it 

 occurs in all suitable localities. 



905.— Gallinula chloropus, Lin. 



Common about all pieces of water, large and small, 

 throughout the Manipur basin, even in the tanks in 

 the Residency compound. I observed this in Sylhet 

 and have received it from N.-E. Cachar, and Godwin- 

 Austen includes it in his Dafla hill list, but beyond this 

 I know nothing certain of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet 

 or Cachar. 



Blyth records this from Arakan, and it occurs in Northern 

 Pegu and Northern and Central Tenasserim. 



907. — Erythra phcenicura, Peww. 



This was rather common about the lanes and compound 

 hedges of the capital, and I saw it once or twice elsewhere, 

 but except at Manipur itself it was decidedly scarce. 



I observed this species in Central and have received 

 it from Northern Sylhet ; also from N.-E. Cachar and 

 several localities in the Dibrugarh district, and that is all 

 I know of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



[This is very common all over the district of Dibrugarh. 

 I have come across it on the sides of roads leading through 

 forest even, — J. R. C] 



It is pretty common in suitable localities throughout 

 British Burmah. 



Mr. Chennell procured 908. — Porzana akool, Sykes, in the 

 North Khasi hills, but I have no other record of its occurrence 

 in Assam, Sylhet, Cachar, or indeed British Burmah, and I 

 did not meet with it in Manipur. 



I have received 910. — Porzana bailloni, Vieill., from 

 N.-E. Cachar, and Mr. Chennell procured this also near the 

 base of the North Khasi hills, and this is all I know 

 certainly of its distribution in Assam, Sylhet and Cachar, 

 though from different sources I have heard of its having been 

 shot pretty well all over all these. I never saw these in 

 Manipur; it has occurred in all the provinces of British 



