398 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



Capt. Ficlden thus ideutified a luron wliith Imd abiindmitly in Thayet-myo. 

 Hume says it is certainly not qartetln, and is jxrhaps nuilbcr melanopus nor coroiiumtlits 

 (S.F. iii. p. 190). 



DEStiKnitKTTA SACHA, Gmcl. Tenasserim Coast. Andanians. Nicobars. 



Bui'iius coROMAXDUs, Ijodd. Arakan. Andamans. 



The ' cattle heron,' is so called from being frequently seen in attendance on 

 cattle, following them to pick up grasshoppers or insects disturbed by them in grazing. 



Ardeola (irayi, Sykes. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. Andamans. 



A. leucuptern, Bodd. 

 The common paddy bii'd, the tamest and most familiar bird of its family. 

 A. PRAsixocELis, Swinhoe. Southern Tenasserim. 



BrioKiDEs Javaxica, Horsf. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. Andamans. 



Nicobars. 

 Aedetla FLAvicor.Lis, Lath. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



A. cixNAMOiiEA, Gmel. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. Nicobars. 



A. SINENSIS, Gmel. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



Andamans. Nicobars. 

 GoRSUCHius MELAXOLOPHUS, Eufflcs. Eamri. Malewou. Nicobars. 



Nycticokax GKisEu.s, L. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. Nicobars. 



Famihj TantalidsB. 



This family is divided into Timialina: or Wood Ibises ; Plataleina; or Spoonbills ; 

 Anailuinaliiue or Shell-eaters ; and Ibisinm or Ibises. 



TAA'TALIN^. 



The "Wood Ibises are largish birds, with shorter legs than the herons ami longer 

 and more obtuse bills. They build in trees, often in communities, and lay white eggs 

 usually spotted or blotched with red or brown. 



Tantalus leucocephalus, Gmel. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



ANASTOMIXiE. 

 Bill thick and solid, gaping in the middle. This space between the upper and 

 lower jaws exists in the young, and is not the result of attrition by the shells the 

 bird devours, as might be supposed. It must be viewed as the survival of an ancestral 

 character, doubtless of use to some remote progenitor, but which has ceased to be so 

 amidst modem surroundings. 



Anastosius oscitans, Lath. Pegu. Tenasserim. 

 Khe-u-tsok. 



IBISINiE. 



Idis melanocephalus, L. Arakan. Tenasserim. 

 Kala gouk. The white Ibis. 



Gehoxticus PAPaLosus, Tem. Arakan. 



Graptocephalus Davisoni, Ilume. Southern Tenasserim. 



Falcinellus icjneus, Gmel. Arakan. Pegu (world wide). 

 This Ibis was sacred in Egypt, and on its death was embalmed. 



Platalca leucorodia, L., is included in the list of birds in the earlier edition of Dr. 

 Mason's work, but neither J31yth, Kume, nor other collectors have met with it. 



Order ANSERES. 



This order embraces all the Anatidce or Lamelliro.strcs, together with the Loons, 

 Grebes, Gulls, Petrels, Cormorants and Pelicans, together with the Auks and 

 Penguins of high latitudes. The order is subdivided into those birds whose young 

 feed themselves (Autoirqj/wus), and those whose J'oung require to be fed by their 

 parents {Ileterotrephous) . 



