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meiiu Davison examined the skin, and as be knows the bird as 

 well as any bird in India, having shot it year by year from his 

 boyhood upwards, the fact is absolutely certain. Again close 

 under the cone of Mooleyit this last year one rose in front of 

 Davison, which he is much ashamed to say he most disgracefully 

 missed. Again Mr. J. C» Davis, Assistant Commissioner at 

 Thatone, informs Davisou that many years ago he shot a bird 

 there which he did not then know, but which he skinned and 

 sent to Mr. Blyth who wrote in reply that it was a common 

 Woodcock. Mr. H. B. Davidson, Superintendent of Police, has 

 kindly given me the head and feet of a Woodcock shot by him 

 at Kyekagan, 22 miles from Rangoon, in February 1865 ; ho 

 also shot one, he informs me, near Mamogan, about 10 miles 

 from Tavoy. 



868. — Gallinago nemoricola, Hodgs. 



Davison flushed a specimen of this species in a bit of thick 

 juugle on the banks of a little stream near Malewoon. He 

 has shot numbers of this species on the Nilghiris, and is, he says, 

 perfectly certain of the identification. 



870.— Gallinago sthenura, Kuhl (9). S. F., II., 294 ; 

 V., 212. 



Wimpong ; Ora-a-gwen ; Pakckan ; Bankasoon ; Malewoon. 



Occurring, and pretty common, throughout the province in 

 suitable localities. The mass leave during the hot season and 

 rains, but some few apparently remain the whole year. 



871.— Gallinago scolopacina, Bp. (2). 



{Tongboo, Rams.) Pabyouk j Assoon. 



A very rare visitant to the central portions of the province 

 and to the tracts west of the Sittang. 



872. — Gallinago gallinula, Lin. 



Captain Dodd, the Master Attendant at Moulmein, has, on 

 several occasions, shot Jack Snipe in the neighbourhood of Moul- 

 mein. We have not ourselves yet seen specimens, but there 

 is no doubt about this matter. Captain Bingham also shot one 

 last season. 



873.— Rhynchsea bengalensis, Lin. (1). S. F., V., 223. 



Moulmein. 



We owe to Captain Bingham our only specimen of this species. 

 Davison as yet has never met with it, but Ramsay obtained it 

 at Yeytho near Rangoon. 



