ASSAM, SYLHET AND CACHAR. 331 



[Though not numerically common, this bird is one of the 

 features of river and pathar scenery in Dibrugarh. They are 

 very wild and difficult to bag. The Assamese call it " Telia- 

 herenga."— J. R. C] 



It is sparsely distributed throughout Arakan and Pegu in 

 suitable localities, but in Tenasserim we only met with it 

 quite in the north. 



[918. — Ciconia nigra, Lin. 



In December 1883 when Snipe-shooting with a friend over, 

 some pathars near Ting-Kong Tea Garden we came across a flock 

 of 70 individuals of this species. They allowed us to get up 

 to within 100 yards, and we counted them. I had only snipe 

 shot, and had a long shot, but did not bring any down. There' 

 were two Black-necked Storks (917) and about a dozen White-' 

 necked Storks (920) along with them. I never again noticed 

 this species. — J. R. C] 



?919.— Ciconia alba, 5ecAs^ 



I enter this species with a doubt. I saw a party of six or 

 seven birds near the Logtak lake which I set down without 

 doubt as belonging to this species. I did not go after them ; it 

 was no use killing the poor things which are not fit to eat, and 

 I had no doubt as to what they were. Subsequently it has 

 occurred to me that they may have been not this species, but 

 the eastern G. hoyceana, Swinh. I never again met with them, 

 and future observers must clear up the doubt. 



I have no record of the occurrence of this species in Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar; nor, though included by Mason in his 

 list, have I any reason to believe that it occurs in any part' 

 of British Burmah. 



In both Sylhet and Cachar (but only once in the latter 

 district, shortly after entering it) I observed 920. — Dissura 

 episcopa, Bodd., but I have no other record of its occurrence 

 in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, though Godwin-Austen records it 

 from " the Brahmaputra," a somewhat vague locality._^ I did 

 not meet with this in Manipur to the best of my belief, and' 

 at any rate I have nowhere recorded seeing it. 



[This common and permanent resident of the Dibrugarh' 

 district seems to have escaped the notice of all previous 

 collectors. They are found in all suitable damp localities. 

 I have come across a pair feeding in a tiny pool in heavy 

 forest.— J. R. C] . 



