334 LIST OF BIRDS IN MANIPUR, 



It is universally distributed in suitable localities and gener- 

 ally common throughout all the provinces of British Burmah. 



930. — Ardeola grayi, SyTtes. 



This species is very sparsely distributed throughout the 

 Manipur basin, in the eastern portions of which, at any rate, 

 it occurs in the same ponds as the next species. 



I observed it all over Sylhet and Cachar, and I had previ- 

 ously received it both from Northern Sylhet and N.-E. Cachar, 

 but I know nothing of its distribution in Assam. 



[Abundant in Dibragarh, frequenting alike damp pathars 

 and paddy fields, and even pools in deep forest. — J. R. C.] 



It is common in the low country throughout British Burmah, 

 and was procured by Ramsay in Karenee. 



93062S. — Ardeola leucoptera, Bodd.=A. prasinos- 

 celis, Swinh. S. P., VI, 481, VIII, 161. 



It was only in the eastern portions of the basin that I 

 noticed this species, early in April, about Kokshin Koonoo, &c. 

 It was very scarce, and I only secured two specimens, both 

 in full breeding plumage. I saw three others, but unlike 

 graj/i they were so wary that I could not shoot them. 



The following are the details of my two specimens : — 



Length, Expanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsus. Bill from gape. Weight. 



$ ... 20 7 33-1 3 90 2 42 34 lib. 



„ ... 211 82 5 3-2 9 1 2-4: 3-4 14 ozg. 



Soles and tibiae pale yellow ; tarsi and toes pale yellowish 

 green ; claws pale brown ; bill yellow in middle, black 

 on terminal inch, bluish at base ; irides golden yellow ; 

 bare orbital skin greenish yellow, 



I have no knowledge of the occurrence of this species any- 

 where in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, and in British Burmah I 

 only know of its occasional and rare occurrence in the lower 

 central and southern portions of Tenasserim. 



931.— Butorides javanica, Horsf, 



Very scarce in Manipur. In the Western hills on the 12th 

 February, straying at dusk down to where two streams 

 meet in the Limata, and there is a slight rapid, I saw a little 

 Green Bittern fishing in the rapid and shot him. Again 

 near the Logtak lake, pushing through a mass of bulrush 

 and reed interspersed with bushes in quest of a wounded duck 

 that I had seen drop there, I flushed one of these birds. 



