454 BIRDS OF TENASSEKIM. 



and sides of the head pale buffy or buffy white, speckled and 

 spotted with brown ; ear-coverts small and inconspicuous, 

 brown or rufescent brown, pale shafted ; indications of a broad 

 pale supercilium ; forehead pale buff, barred or speckled with 

 black ; crown and occiput rufous, the feathers tipped black with 

 a narrow pale central streak ; back, scapulars, rump, lesser wing- 

 coverts, brown, patched with ferruginous rufous, and pencilled 

 with black, and many of the feathers tipped with buffy white, 

 the tips preceded by a black band ; primaries, secondaries, and 

 primary greater coverts pale plain grey brown, and the greater 

 coverts and the quills often more or less margined with pale 

 rufescent ; median coverts and secondary greater coverts pale 

 greyish rufescent, broadly tipped with buff and with a large 

 black spot near the tip ; tertiaries pale brown, tinged with ru- 

 fous, especially on the outer webs, pencilled in zig-zag with black, 

 in some perhaps more correctly freckled, and with a buff band, 

 preceded by an irregular black one near the tip on the outer webs. 



Joudera I have from various localities in the lower Himalayas 

 as far east as Kumaon, in the N.-W.-P. and Oudh, Western 

 Bengal, the Central Provinces and Berar and the Bombay Presi- 

 dency, and it doubtless occurs in Madras and in the Punjab, 

 though I have none thence. 



Maculosus again I have from the Malay Peninsula, various 

 parts of British Burma and Hill Tipperah, and I dare say it 

 occurs in Assam. 



842.— Glareola orientalis, Leach. (11). 



(Tonghoo, Earns.) Thatone ; Momenzeik ; Kobaing ; Tavoy. 

 Confined apparently to the cultivated and open lands of the 

 central portions of the province and the tracts west of the 

 Sittang. 



[This Swallow Plover is not uncommon about fields and other 

 open or cultivated land, always in larger or smaller flocks. It 

 is, as a rule, shy and difficult to approach, and rises with a soft 

 plover-like note, to-wheet, to-wheet ; they run rapidly, and 

 when approached run some little distance before rising. They 

 feed on insects of various sorts, and I have repeatedly seen 

 them high up in the air hawking white ants and other insects. 

 Their flight then is very rapid and graceful and very swallow- 

 like. I have not observed them within our limits south of Tavoy, 

 but it is not uncommon in the Malay Peninsula. — W. D.] 



843.— Glareola lactea, Tern. (42). 



(Tonghoo, Earns.) Theinzeik; Thatone. 



Only observed in the tract between the Salween and Sittang 

 rivers, and again west of the latter river. 



