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FOX-COLOURED TURTLE DOVE. 



This is a brownish dove, seen occasionally, but not 

 often. 



Turtur meena. 



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NICOBAR PIGEON. 



The Nicobar pigeon with its elegant neck-frill, is 

 sometimes seen in confinement, and the Burmese call it 

 by the same name that they do the partridge, and roller, 

 I have never met with it in the jungles, although some 

 of the natives tell me it is found there. 



Calce7ias nicobarica, Blyth. 



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Geophilus niccbarcnsis. 



WADING BIRDS. 

 The Grallatorts y or waders, are numerous. In these 

 Provinces and Arracan, there are herons, bitterns^ demi- 

 egrets, adjutants, cranes, ibises, open-beaks, rails or coots, 

 water-hens, snipes, curlews, sand-pipers, oyster-catchers, 

 snippets, turnstones, and plovers. 



WHITE PADDY-BIRD. 



Near the sea-coast, the bordering trees are often splen- 

 didly illumined with a beautiful heron, whose snowy plu- 

 mage amid the deep emerald foliage, looks in the distance 

 like magnificent white blossoms : it is called in this coun- 

 try the white paddy-bird. 

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GREY HERON. 



A species of grey heron is common at Tavoy, in the in- 

 terior as well as on the sea shore. The Karen name 

 this bird bears at Tavoy, is at Maulmain appropriated to a 

 species of rail or coot. 

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