igzi.] N. Annandale : Fauna of Burkiida I. 329 



The last to go are young birds in inunature plumage. The species 

 breeds in enormous numbers, with the Common Herons and the 

 Open-bill on Kalidai, the sacred island of the Chilka Lake, some 

 ten miles north-east of Barkuda. Bj- the end of October the 

 young birds are nearlj* fledged. 



Plotus melanogaster (Pennant). 



Not uncommon on the rocky parts of the shore of the island. 



Ibis melanocephala (Ivath.). 



I have seen several birds of this species roosting on trees with 

 the egrets in the hot weather and early part of the rains, but it 

 does not breed on the island. 



Dissiira cpiscopus (Bodd.). 



An occasional visitor to the shore. 



Xenorliynchus asiaticus (L,ath.) 



Also an occasional visitor to the shore. 



Ardea cinerea, Linn. 



A common visitor. It breeds both on Kalidai and on Cher- 

 iakuda, which lies just across the bay from Barkuda. Eggs were 

 taken on the latter island in September. 



Herodias alba (Linn.), H. intermedia (Wagler), and H. garzetta 

 (Linn.). 



These three egrets roost on trees of Pongamia glabra and 

 Azadirachta indica near the south shore of the island, but do not 

 breed there. 



Ardeola gravi, (Sykes). 



Common on the shore but I do not think it breeds on the 

 island. I have seen it accompanying a herd of deer [Cervus axis) 

 grazing on the scanty herbage of a cleared area on Barkuda, for 

 the sake of the grass-hoppers disturbed by them. It does not, 

 however, feed on the backs of the deer or even approach ther.i 

 very closely. 



Nycticorax griseus (Linn.). 



Several birds breed on trees near the south side of the island, 

 hut their main nesting place in the vicinity is on Cherriakuda. 



Aiiser indicus (Lath.). 



An occasional visitor to the shore in the cold weather and as 

 late as the beginning of April. 



Dendrocycna javaiiica (Hors.). 



Large flocks frequent the more level parts of the shore in the 

 winter and the hot season. They leave simultaneously, however. 



