456 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



Dr. Jerdon gave me this specimen along with some two hun- 

 dred others, some from Burma, some from Sikim, and some 

 few, such as the type of Ixos xantholcemus, from other localities ; 

 not oue in ten of these specimens bore any tickets, and this 

 particular specimen was one of the unticketed ones. Jerdon 

 himself attached no sort of value to this specimen which he 

 gave me as geoffroyi, and which, indeed, he maintained was 

 geqffroyi when I expressed doubts of the facts. I don't think 

 he had any real knowledge of the locality whence the bird 

 came, merely a floating idea that he had probably got it in 

 Burma. Most of his skins were from the neighbourhood of 

 Darjeeling, and I have myself no doubt that this one also came 

 from the same locality, whence numerous other specimens have 

 since been obtained. I think that for the present this species 

 should be excluded from the birds of Burma. 



848.— -iEgialitis cantianus, Lath. (8). 



(Tonghoo, Earns.) Theinzeik ; Thatone ; Amherst ; Mergui. 

 Sparingly distributed during the cold season about the coasts, 

 creeks, and rivers of the province, but not observed, except by 

 Ramsay, far inland or in the extreme south. 



849 . — iEgialitis curonicus, Gm. (16). 



Thatone ; Yea-boo ; Tea ; Tavoy : Pabyin ; Pakchan. 



A cold weather visitant, occurring alike inland and on the 

 coasts and creeks. 



850.— iEgialitis minutus, Pall apud Jerd. (2). 



Assoon. 

 A single pair met with inland. 



854.— Ohettusia cinerea, Blyth. (17). 



(TongtioOy Earns.) Sittang E. ; Thatone ; Yea. 



Confined to the marsh lands of the central portions of the 

 province and the tracts west of the Sittang. 



[This species frequents marshy grassy land. It was not un- 

 common in the Thatone plains, where the ground was moist. 

 It was almost always in small flocks which were rather shy, 

 rising with a cry of u did all eat" when approached, and flying 

 some considerable distance before re-settling. They feed entire- 

 ly on insects of various sorts. It is very local apparently ; I 

 did not observe it anywhere south of Yea. — W. D.] 



The following are dimensions, &c., recorded in the flesh of 

 two males and a female : — 



Males. — Length, 13-82, 14-75; expanse, 315; tail from 

 vent, 4*5, 4*8 ; wing, 9 - 45 ; tarsus, 3 0; bill from gape, 1*5, 

 1-55. 



