314 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



847.— ^gialitis mongolica, Pall. 



There were several small flocks of this species about the 

 wet meadows of the Logtak lake, and here I shot several. I 

 have no note of seeing it elsewhere, and this is the only 

 locality from which I preserved specimens, but I have an 

 idea I saw it about one or two other large pieces of 

 water. 



I have as yet no record of its occurrence anywhere in 

 Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, though doubtless it will prove to 

 occur in all. 



It is common everywhere along the coasts and estuaries 

 of British Burmah, and is found pretty well all over 

 Pegu. 



From both N.-E. Cachar and Joonkotollee in the Dibrugarh 

 district, I have received 8486is. — JSgialitis placida, G. E. 

 Gr., but I have no other record of its occurrence in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar. I did not procure it in Manipur, and I do 

 not think it extends to British Burmah. Though, however, 

 I failed to procure it, I believe that a small Plover of this 

 type that I saw on the banks of the Barak river in the 

 Western hills really belonged to this species. 



[Saw about half a dozen in Dibrugarh in as many years, but 

 bagged only one, as they are very shy birds. I only noticed 

 them in the " Desang " river, which is a rather smallish river 

 with high well-wooded banks. 



Male. — Length, 8*75 ; expanse, 170 ; tail, 3'25 ; wing, 5*35 ; 

 tarsus, 1-20 ; bill from gape, 0'84 ; weight, 2-25ozs. 



Bill black, base below yellow ; legs and feet soapy yellow ; 

 claws black ; irides earthy brown. This bird was shot on the 

 23rd November 1880.— J. R. C] 



848.— .fflgialitis cantiana, Lath. 



I only once saw this in Manipur, and that was at the Logtak 

 lake ; there was a small party of about six or seven at a rather 

 bare spot on the western shore of the lake. 



There is as yet no record of the occurrence of this species 

 anywhere in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



In British Burmah it seems to occur all along the coasts 

 and estuaries, except perhaps in the extreme south of 

 Tenasserini, but in Burmah it seems to be scarcely ever found, 

 as it so constantly is in India, far inland, though Ramsay did 

 procure it at Tonghoo. 



