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taking the season all through, than the Pintail, It occurs as 

 a rule sparingly throughout Arakan and Pegu, and in Tenas- 

 serim it is little more than a chance straggler to the central 

 portions of the province, and only a little less rare in the tract 

 between the Sittang and the Sal ween. 



[At the beginning of the season the Common Snipe is oftener 

 shot, but when fair Snipe-shooting is to be had in Dibrugarh 

 in March and April, for every one of this species shot, 

 five of the Pintail are bagged. I record measurements of 

 three : — 



Length. Expanse. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill from gape. Bill at front. Weight 



Female 10 62 10 10 5-02 250 1-23 2 50 2-55 STO ozs 



, ...1160 17 70 5.27 2-55 1-25 2-95 3-03 3 60,, 



Afate... 10 80 16-60 5 lo" 2 35 1-23 2-60 2 75 3 05,, 



They are found under the same conditions as the last 

 species. — J. R. C] 



872.— Gallinago gallinula, Lin. 



This must be very rare in Manipur, because, despite the 

 constant traversing of nooks and corners exactly suited to its 

 tastes, I never but once saw a Jack from first to last. One day 

 at the Logtak lake, as a man landed to pick up a duck I had 

 dropped as it passed overhead, he put up a Jack ; it was a 

 very awkward shot as he flew towards the stern of the canoe 

 and I was in the bows facing forward, and one has to be very 

 gingerly in turning, and so though he dropped at once I 

 thought I had missed. He dropped in a thick bed of reed 

 grass, and I landed with all the men, but I could neither find 

 his " remains " nor succeed in again flushing him. 



In Sylhet this is not uncommon, but in Cachar it is very 

 rare. I shot one myself in the former district, near Lakhai. 

 I have had others sent me from both districts. In Assam I 

 only know that Col. Graham recorded having, in the course 

 of years, shot a few in the Dibrugarh district. 



[This is decidedly rare in Dibrugarh, as I only saw two in 

 Jhelum " pathar " near the Moran Tea Garden, and another 

 planter showed me the skin of one he had shot near Jaipur. 



-J. B. C] 



In Pegu I only know for certain of its occurrence near the 

 mouth of the Bassein river. Formerly Mr. Gates recorded (III, 

 182) that it was occasionally killed in Upper Pegu, but he 

 has apparently now changed his opinion (X, 239, n.). 1 have no 

 record of its occurrence in Arakan, and in Tenasserim I only 

 know of its being occasionally shot in the neighbourhood of 

 Moulmein. 



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