4 Mr. W. Jesse — Egging on the 



m. $ad. sli. Pahpooa, Tenasserim, Jan. KJ, Seebohm Coll. 



1874 {W.D.). 

 n. J ad. sk. Myawadee, Tenasseriiu, Jan. 21, Hume Cull. 



"l877 ( W. D.). 

 0. J inim. Thoungyeen R., Tenasserim, Hume Coll. 



sk. Mar.4,1880(C. T. Bingham). 



p. 2 ^^- ^^- "VVimpoug, Tenasserim, Dec. "20, Hume Coll. 



187G (V. I).), 

 q. J ad. sk. Kaukaryit, Teuasserim, Jan. 10, Hume Coll. 



1877'( Pr.D.). 

 r. <S ad. sk. Kaiikaryit, Tenasserim, Jan. 14, Hume Coll. 



1877 ( W. I).). 



II. — A Day's Egging on the Sandbanks of the Ganges. 

 By William Jesse. 



In writing this account of a day spent in hunting sandbanks 

 for the eggs of the Terns and Plovers, I cannot help feeling 

 that I am going over ground well known and sonaewhat stale ; 

 but, as it is just possible that there may be some other 

 oologist as enthusiastic^ but as inexperienced in this par- 

 ticular line as myself, I think that my remarks may have 

 some slight interest. 



None of the Terns and Plovers that haunt our large Indian 

 river-systems breed in the immediate vicinity of Lucknow, 

 the Goomti not being a stream broad enough to furnish the 

 flats and islands patronized by the^e birds. 



1 had made one short trip down the Ganges from Cawnpore 

 in the middle of March, through the kindness of Mr. Pisher, 

 of tiie Bank of Bengal, but, partly owing to the somewhat 

 early date, and partly to my ignorance of the habits of the 

 birds, I was unsuccessful. However, in the second week 

 in April last I found I could get a few days' leave, and 

 promptly wrote to my friend Mr. Wildcblood, District 

 Engineer at Fatehgarh, to acquaint him of the fact, and to 

 say that I intended to come over to him with all speed, 

 bent on oological discoveries. 



On the 5th of April therefore I entered the train, thoroughly 

 equipped for my expedition, and with the Indian oologist's 



