338 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUE, 



[Pretty common in the Dibrugarh district. During the 

 day they generally frequent dark places in heavy forest, 

 roosting on the small trees overhanging pools of water. At 

 dusk when flying to their feeding grounds their well known 

 note is often heard. — J. R. C] 



Throughout British Burmah this species is common. 



In Sylhet I observed 938. — Tantalus leucocephalus, Penn., 

 but I have no information as to its occurrence in Assam 

 and Cachar, and I failed to meet with it in Manipur. It is 

 very scarce there, but has occurred in all parts of Tenasserim. 

 It is more common in Lower Pegu and Arakan, but very 

 scarce again in Upper Pegu. 



940. — Anastomus oscitans, Bodd, 



This was met with here and there about the entire basin, 

 but occurred in immense flocks at the Logtak lake. 



Godwin-Austen, I gather, procured this somewhere in Sylhet, 

 but thus is all I know as yet of its occurrence in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. 



[These are fairly common. One of their breeding places 

 is up the Tingri river, a small stream with a muddy oozy 

 bottom and dense forest along its banks which falls into the 

 " Dehing " river a few miles below Jaipur in Dibrugarh. On 

 the 3rd September 1884, about 20 half-fledged birds procured 

 from these were brought to me by the boatmen, who said 

 there were scores of nests. — J. R. 0.] 



Blyth records this from Arakan, and Mr. Oates once pro- 

 cured a specimen at Thayetmyo. 



There is no other record of its occurrence in Pegu, and 

 we have never met with or heard of it in any part of 

 Tenasserim. 



941.— Ibis melanocephala, Lath. 



By no means a common bird in Manipur (though I saw a good 

 many at the Logtak lake) and looked upon as a foreign bird ; 

 hence the name " urok," meaning paddy bird, and " Miyan," a 

 term applied to things from Cachar and equivalent to the Hin- 

 dustani " purdesee." Thus Coj'vus splendens, never seen in Mani- 

 pur, is talked of by them as the " Miyan kwak," or Cachar or 

 foreign crow. 



I have no record as yet of the occurrence of this species in 

 Assam, Sylhet and Cachar, though I have no doubt that it does 

 occur in all. Blyth records this from Arakan, Oates says it 



