on some Burmese Birds. 469 



560. Glareola orientalis. 



Towards the end of April, in both years that I was on 

 the frontier of British Burma, these Pratincoles came into 

 Tonghoo in large numbers for a few days on their way 

 northwards. They might be seen every evening at dusk 

 hawking after insects among the houses on the river-bank. 



561. Glareola lactea. 



The Small Pratincoles breed in great numbers on the sand- 

 banks of the Sittang in April and May, just before the 

 rains commence. In the year 1875 the change of the mon- 

 soon took place nearly a month before the usual time, and 

 consequently the sandbanks, on which were lying hundreds 

 of eggs of this bird, Seena aurantia, Sternula javanica, and 

 Rhynchops albicollis, were covered with water, and in a few 

 days every e^^ was swept away. 



570. LiMOSA iEGOCEPHALA. 



I only once saw this Godwit in Burma. It is a rare bird, 

 according to my experience, at Tonghoo. 



583. RhYNCH^A BENGALENSIS. 



On the 14th September 1874 I extracted a perfect egg 

 from a female that I had shot. This seems a late date for 

 the bird to be breeding ; but I observe (Hume^s ' Nests and 

 Eggs of Indian Birds,' p. 587) that Mr. Layard has known 

 an egg taken from a Painted Snipe in November in Ceylon. 



586. GrUS ANTIGONE. 



(Burmese, " Gyo-gya-gyee.'^) 



The Sarus Crane is tolerably common in the valley of the 

 Sittang. Mr. Hume does not include it in his paper on the 

 birds of Upper Pegu (S. F. iii.), nor in his lists of the 

 Tenasserim birds in ' Stray Feathers.'' 



It breeds near Tonghoo ; but I have never myself found 

 its nest, but have had the eggs brought to me by the Burmese. 

 They described the nest as a pile of weeds and. mud, situated 

 generally in the middle of a swamp. 



On the 29th September 1876 a Burman brought me an 

 egg and a newly hatched Sarus chicken. He had taken the 



