The kuki population extends to the wilder parts of the district of Tippera.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham
In April last a kuki brought me three young ones he had taken from a nest in a clump of tree-jungle; he said the nest was some 20 feet from the ground and made of bamboo-leaves and grass."
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume
It is these colonies which are sometimes referred to by other writers as "kuki Colonies."
"The Khasis"
P. R. T. Gurdon