S42 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



attracted there by the captive Grey Lag and Barred-headed 

 Geese and some few ducks that Col. Johnstone kept there. 



It occurs all over Assam, right up to Sadiya, and is common in 

 both Sylhet and Cachar. Again it is pretty common over the 

 whole of British Burmah, but is rarer in Upper Pegu than 

 elsewhere. 



[The " Horali " of the Assamese is scattered during the rains 

 all over the district of Dibrugarh, where they breed. On the 

 29th of May I took a clutch of nine fresh eggs. Mr. W. G. 

 Parcell, a tea planter, when coming down the Dehing river on 

 the 22nd September 1880, saw them on the sands packed in 

 dense flocks of sizes, some numbering thousands of individuals, 

 and the boatmen assured him that they always did so before 

 migrating. — J. R. C] 



Mr. M. Eden, writing from the Mirzapoor Tea Estate, says 

 that 953. — Dendrocygna fulva, Gm., is by no means uncommon 

 in this part of Sylhet, where he usually sees about one of it to 

 five of the common Whistling Teal. I have no record as yet of 

 its occurrence in Assam or Cachar, nor do I know of its occur- 

 rence in Arakan or Tenasserim proper, but it appears to be 

 sparingly distributed throughout Pegu. 



954— Casarca rutila, Pall. 



Pretty common at the Logtak lake, and occasionally seen 

 elsewhere in the Manipur basin. 



This species is common in Sylhet, rather rare in Cachar, and 

 occurs along the whole course of the Brahmaputra right up 

 to Sadiya. 



[Common in the cold weather along the courses of all the 

 large rivers in the district of Dibrugarh. — J. R. C] 



It occurs throughout Arakan, Pegu and Northern Tenas- 

 serim (not I believe south of the Gulf of Martaban) for the 

 most part sparingly, but along the course of the Irrawaddy in 

 considerable numbers. 



From Dollah at the extreme east of the Assam valley, I 

 have received 955. — Anas leiccoptera, Bly. It is rare in the 

 Darrang, common in the Lakhimpur district. Godwin- Austen 

 records it from Dinapur on the Dunsiri river, from the in- 

 terior of the Garo hills, and from near Tezpoor in the Darrang 

 district. I know nothing further of its distribution in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. Specimens have in days long past been 

 sent from Southern Tenasserim, but we have never succeeded 

 in meeting with it there, nor have I any other record of its 



