60 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



On the 3rd March 1874 I shot a female of this species off her 

 nest containing two eggs at Yea-boo up the Attaran. — W. D.] 



114 Us.— Lyncornis cerviniceps, Gould. (34), 



(Tonghoo, Lloyd.) Eollidoo ; Pahpoon ; Thatone ; Pabyin ; Bankasoon. 



Generally distributed throughout the better-wooded portions 

 of the province up to 4,000 feet. 



[This grand Night Jar is not at all uncommon in the well- 

 wooded portions of Tenasserim from north to south, but it does 

 not seem to occur in those portions that are scantily wooded, 

 or where the forests or the greater portion of them are deci- 

 duous and not evergreen, as in the vicinity of Moulmein and be- 

 tween that place and Tavoy. South of Mergui, as at Malewoon 

 and Bankasoon, it is common. 



It makes its appearance soon after sundown, flying at a great 

 height, and numbers coming from the same direction (though 

 quite independently of one another and not altogether), utter- 

 ing its full and clear whistle. As the evening advances, they 

 descend lower and lower, till by the time it is quite dark they 

 are flying about within a few feet of the ground. I have noticed 

 (and I have had great opportunities of observing them') that 

 only for about an hour after their first appearance of an 

 evening do they call, after which they are neither seen nor heard 

 again till dawn the next morning, when numbers are again 

 heard calling and seen wending their way back in the direction 

 from whence they came the preceding evening. 



I have travelled through many and many a mile of forest 

 land, and T have flushed a great many Caprimulgi, but only 

 on one occasion have I ever seen a Lyncornis during the day, 

 and that one I flushed and shot in a narrow strip of thin tree 

 jungle at Malewoon as she rose from her nest containing one 

 egg, quite fresh ; the egg was laid in a slight depression on the 

 bare ground, without the slightest apology for a nest. 



I cannot imagine, and I have often wondered, where these 

 birds roost during the day. I have walked up hill and down 

 dale Over many hundred miles of country, and over ground 

 covered in every conceivable way, with dense forest (sometimes 

 so dense that every step of the way had to be cut), with 

 thin tree jungle, with grass, and with nothing but stones 

 and rocks, and yet only once have I flushed a Lyncornis 

 and that was brooding. I have thought that they might possibly 

 roost on the larger limbs of trees during the day ; but I hardly 

 think it possible that I should have failed to find them if they 

 did, for many a time have I detected and shot other species of 

 Caprimulgi during the day, roosting on the larger limbs of 

 trees. I have noticed that, when they make their appearance 



