464 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



897.— Totanus calidris, Gm. (27). 



(Karennee, Earns.) Salween R. ; Sittang R. ; Kedai-Keglay ; Thatone ; Am- 

 herst ; Long Island ; Bopyin ; Malewoon. 



Common throughout the province during the cold season, 

 alike on the coast and in and on every little pool. 



898.— Himantopus candidus, Bonnat. (6). 



{Karen Sills, Rams.) Thatone. 



Seen in Tenasserim Proper only about the creeks in the tract 

 between the Salween and Sittang, and rare there. 



900.— Parra indica, Lath. (42). 



( Tonghoo, Rams.) Beeling ; Theinzeik ; Thatone ; Khyin j Ngabeemah ; Yea- 

 boo ; Assoon ; Amherst. 



Common in suitable localities throughout the northern half 

 of the province, and a little south of this. 



[Very common about weed-covered tanks. I have not noticed 

 it to the south of Amherst. In the cold season there are as 

 many white as black-breasted birds to be seen. — W. D.] 



According to this the birds must be short lived, as they put 

 on the black plumage when about a year old. 



If the birds of one year and under are equal in numbers to those 

 over one year, then either the mortality is very great, or the race 

 very short lived. In India, however, I have not seen so large 

 a proportion of white-breasted birds. 



901.—- Hydrophasianus chirugus, Scop. (3). 



(longTioo, Rams.) Thatone. 



Blyth gives this from Tenasserim generally, but I think its 

 occurrence in Tenasserim proper accidental. Wardlaw Ram- 

 say obtained it in Tonghoo, but that is of course in a separate 

 zoological sub-division. Three specimens were, however, obtained 

 at Thatone during the rains by Mr. Davis, but I know of no 

 other instance of its having been met with in Tenasserim 

 proper. 



902. — Porphyrio poliocephalus, Lath. (4). 



(Tonghoo, Rams.) Yea-boo; Assoon. 



Occasionally met with in suitable localities in the central 

 portions of the province, and in the country west of the Sittano-. 



[I have found this bird very rare, except on a large tank 

 near' Assoon, where it was very abundant, but difficult to 



