96 REMARKS ON SOME SPECIES RECENTLY 



[992.— Sterna ansetheta, Scop. 



I procured numerous dessicated specimens of this species, 

 on the Vengorla Rocks, the majority no doubt young birds, but 

 two or three of them old adults. It is quite certain that this 

 species breeds on these rocks during the monsoon, and it is 

 clearly entitled to a place in the present list. — A. 0. H.] 



1007.— Phalacrocorax pygmaeus, Pall 



I Khed. I 



| Chiplun. 



This our only species of Cormorant I believe is excessively 

 common on all the large rivers, travelling miles inland by day 

 in search of fish-stocked waters, and returning with the greatest 

 punctuality every evening at sundown in successive detach- 

 ments to some common roost, usually a mangrove swamp, 

 where, with Herons, Egrets, Ibis, Snake Birds and Crows in 

 one vast motley crew, they fight and scream and wrangle for a 

 full hour, before they settle down for the night. No Cormorants, 

 I believe, stay to breed in the district, but leave like the Egrets 

 at the first burst of the south-west monsoon. 



1008— Plotus melanogaster, Penn. 



Kelshi. | | 



Abundant on all the large rivers in their fresh waters as well 

 as tidal sections. I don't think any Snake Birds stay to breed 

 in the district. 



Stonarfes on some series mmity teriM % 

 Pr. ImoR 



I have carefully examined Mr. Brooks' types of Cyornis 

 •poliogenys (described S. F., VIII., p. 469). I find that I have 

 one* specimeu of this species from Comillah, Tipperah, a 

 female, killed on the 28th March 1869, and measured in the 

 flesh by the late Mr. Valentine Irwin. At the time I obtained 

 this specimen, I noted on the ticket " very possibly should 

 be separated as C. intermedins." There are twenty-four adult 

 females of rvheculoxdes from various parts of India and 

 Burmah in our collection ; all these are clearly distinct from 

 poliogenys. 



The first point of distinction^ the larger size of the wing. This 

 varies in the above referred to specimens of female ruoeculoides 

 from 2*6 to 2"8 as a maximum. Mr. Brooks', by some error, 



* Also I find one from the Bhutan Dours, and many others also from the Dours 

 are in the late Mr. Mandelli's collection. 



