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Sub-Fjimily Glareolidce, 

 (579) Glarbola okientalis. — The Large Indian Swallow-Plover. 



Hume, No. 842 ; Blanford, No. 1425. 

 I luive soen but one specimen of this Swallow-Plover, ti female shot 

 by one of my collectors in Cachar, in December, 1897. 



(580) Glareola lactea. — The Small Indian Swallow-Plover. 

 Hume, No. 843 ; Blanford, No. 1427. 

 Occasionally met with in the plains of Cachar, but never, I think, 

 at all common. 



Family Parridce, 

 (581) Metopidius indicus. — The Bronze-winged Jacana. 

 Huwe, No. 900 ; Blanford, No. 1428. 

 Extremely common throughout Cachar, and may also be found 

 sometimes at considerable elevations. I saw two birds at Kurrangma, 

 an artificial lake at an altitude of over 3,000 feet, and I have also seen 

 one or two about the swamps on the high uplands about the Hot Springs. 

 This bird is credited by different observers with laying from four to 

 ten eggs. Out of some hundred nests I have taken the vast majority 

 contained four eggs, very rarely five only, once or twice sis. I bad 

 one nest taken from bushes about twenty yards from the nearest tank. 

 (582) Hydrophasianus chirurgus. — The Pheasant-tailed Jacana. 



Hume, No. 901 ; Blanford, No. 1429. 

 Far less common than the last bird and, undoubtedly, locally migra- 

 tory. A good many are met with on the larger bheels during the 

 rains, but nearly all leave during the cold weather, most I expect to 

 Sylhet, where they are common all the year round. 



The eggs are almost invarial)ly four in number. A very fine series 

 I possessed before the earthquake of 1896 showed almost every shade 

 of color between a pale stone green to a deep, almost black, bronze- 

 brown. The commonest color was a bronze-brown, rather dark and 

 often more so at the larger end than at the other. 

 Family Charadriid,^. 

 Sub-Family Charadriince. 

 (583) Strepsilas interpres. — The Turnstone. 

 Hume, No. 860 ; Blanford, No. 1430. 

 A friend from Cachar bus reported this bird as having been shot by 

 him. I have never met with it, and he has seen it on no other occasion. 



