■100 nrHMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PiionrcTioxs. 



ni.vFiLA AcriA, L. Arakau. 



The Pintail is also excellent eating. 



QuERQrEDrLi CRECCA L. ArakaD. Bhamo. 



Q. ciKciA, L. Arakan. Peg;ii. Toung-ngoo. Tenasserim. 



The hhu'-winged Teal has been known to breed near Maulmain (Blyth). 



JFareca Pexki.opk, L. Arakan. 



M. GiiiBERiFEoxs, S. Miill. Andaiiians. 



Quer. Andamanensis, Tytler. 



M. (dboyidaris, Hume {Jide ^Valden). 



FULIGULINiE. 



The Pochards are of a stout heavy form, with close thick plumage, and are 

 excellent divers. Their flesh is inditferent and fishy. 

 Athtea effina, Pallas. Bhamo. 



The red-crested Pochard. 



A. NVEocA, Giild. Arakau. 



The white-eyed Duck. 



Family Podicipidae. 



All the Grebes lay ratlier pointed oval eggs uf spotless white, which soon 

 however, become stained brown by tlie materials of the nest. They swim and dive 

 well, using their wings under water as well as their feet. Their plumage is dense, 

 soft, and the undei-parts silky. 



PoDicErs MINOR, L. ' Arakan. Pegu. Tenasserim. 



Famili/ Procellariidse. 



Of the Petrels of the Burmese coast, less is known than of almost any other 

 birds. One species only seems to liave been obtained by Hume, Oceanitex oceanica, 

 Banks, which was pretty numerous off the Moscows, a group of islands near the coast. 



Family Laridae. 



This family is divided into three subfamilies. Lestridince or Skua Gulls, Lariiue 

 or Gulls and Sterninm or Terns. 



LESTEIDIN^. 

 Stercoeaetus pomaeinus, Tem. Maulmain. 



Tickoll procured an adult skua, which was referred to tlie above species, and 

 Jerdon comments on the singulanty of a bird of high latitudes being found there. 

 Hume, however, suggests (S.F. i. p. 2(58) if TickcU's bird did not really belong to a 

 species which is common on the coast of Sind and in tlie Gulf of Oman, and which 

 he refers, with doubt, to S. paraKiticun, L., or more probably ho tliiiiks to a new 

 species, which he terms iS'. asiaticus. It remains of course to decide if S'. asiaticus, 

 Hume, really occurs in Burma. 



LARINiE. 

 The Gulls are a well-marked group of birds, which walk pretty well, but swim 

 and fly with remarkable (;asc and buoyancy. They breed on the ground or on rocks, 

 and lay from two to four greenish eggs, richly blotched with dark browu. 



Xema bhunneicephaea, Jerdon. Arakan Coast. 



X. ridibunda, L. Arakan Coast. 



Laetjs iCHTHYAJirus, Pallas. Eamri (Blyth). 



