22 BIRDS OF BRITISH BURMAH. 



It is spread throughout China, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia and Japan. 

 Dr. Tiraud states that it is common in Cochin China. Dr. Anderson 

 procured it near Bhamo in Native Burmah ; Col. Godwin-Austen in the 

 hills of the N.E. frontier, where he found it breeding ; and Dr. Scully 

 observed it in Nipal. 



Messrs. Blakiston and Pryer remark that the eggs are two in number, 

 white patched with grey, and that they are placed on the ground. Colonel 

 Godwin- Austen found the eggs in May; they were laid close in under a 

 rock by the side of the path on the ground. 



Subfamily PODAGERIN^. 

 Genus LYNCORNIS, Gould. 



419. LYNCOBNIS CERVINICEPS. 



THE BURMESE EARED NIGHTJAR. 



Lyncornis cerviniceps, Gould, Icones Avium, pt. ii. pi. 4 ; El. B. Burnt, p. 82 ; 

 Wardlaw Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 459 ; Davison, S. F. v. p. 454 ; Hume fy Dav. 

 S. F. vi. p. 60 ; Hume, S. F. viii. pp. 48, 85, ix. p. 120 ; Bingham, S. F. ix. 

 p. 151. 



Description. Male and female. Forehead, crown and nape clear buff, 

 very finely vermiculated with black; the ear-tufts black, tipped with buff; 

 general colour of the upper plumage and wings buff, variegated with 

 chestnut and black ; tail barred buff and black ; throat and breast dark 

 chocolate-brown, the feathers slightly tipped with chestnut ; a broad band 

 of white across the throat ; lower plumage black, barred with buff. 



Iris dark brown ; bill light horn-colour ; claws light brown ; mouth 

 flesh-colour. 



Length 16 inches, tail 8'5, wing 12, tarsus *8, bill from gape 1*7. The 

 female is of the same size. 



No description can do justice to this beautiful bird, so I have contented 

 myself with merely indicating the combination of colours on the various 

 parts of the plumage. There is no other species of Lyncornis likely to 

 occur in Burmah which can be, confounded with the present species, 

 C. temminckii of the Malay peninsula being a very much smaller bird. 



The Burmese Eared Nightjar is generally spread over British Burmah 

 in suitable localities. I observed it to be very abundant at the foot of the 

 Arrakan hills near Prome ; and I was informed by a friend that he had 

 met with it on the Pegu hills not many miles north of the town of Pegu. 

 Colonel Lloyd sent it from Tonghoo ; and Captain Wardlaw Ramsay states 



