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Sub-Order — Ciconi^. 

 Family Ciconudce. 

 (630) CicoNiA NiGEA.— The Black Stork. 

 Hume, No. 918 ; Blanford, No. 1547. 

 1 have one specimon, a fino male, shot by my collectors on the Chutla 

 bheel and said to have been one of a flock of seven. I have not seen 

 any of this species in Cachar myself. 



(631) DissuRA Enscopus. — The White-necked Stork. 

 Hume, No. 1)20 ; Bianford, No. 1548. 

 This Stork is not very rare in Cachar, where yearly a few individuals 

 may be met with. In this district it seems generally to be found eitlier 

 singly or in pairs. I have seen no flocks. 



(632) Xenorhynchus asiaticus.— The Black-necked Stork. 

 Hume, No. 917 ; Blanford, No. 1549. 

 Occun-ing, much like the last, in suitable localities in Cachar. 

 (633) Leptoptilus dubius. — The Adjutant. 

 Hume, No. 915 ; Blanford^ No. 1550. 

 By no means uncommon, and some years occurs in very large numbers. 

 (634) Leptoptilus javanicum. — The Lesser Adjutant. 

 Hume, No. 910 ; Blanford, No. 1551. 

 This is the common Adjutant of Cachar and is resident and breeds. 

 The site selected seems generally to be some cluster of large trees on one 

 of the " tilas " in the broken ground at the foot of the hills. Here they 

 build in company and a dozen or twenty nests may be found together, 

 huge platforms of sticks and branches, often placed at groat heights 

 from the ground. The normal number of eggs appears to be twoj 

 rarely three and sometimes only one. I have a fine series of eggs, 

 nearly all of which I owe to the generosity of Mr. H. A. Hole, who 

 had a colony of tliese birds breeding on the estate he was managing. 



These eggs are much the same as those of L. dubius in texture, i.e., 

 coarse and rough with a surface much pitted and rather inclined 

 to be chalky. Originally white, they are all much stained and smeared. 

 The shape is generally a very regular broad oval ; one I have is almost 

 spherical, two rather long and compressed towards the smaller end and 

 one is quite pointed. 



My smallest egg is 2"28"Xl*9" and they run in length up to 

 3-32" and in b:cadth up to 2-38", and 20 average 2-y4"x2'2". All the 



