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occurs in large flocks all over the plains of Lower Pegu, and we 

 found it not uncommon in the plains of the central portions of 

 Tenasserim, but saw it nowhere else in that province. 



943. — Falcinellus igneus, S, G. Gm. 



Common about the rice flats and water meadows and j heels 

 of the basin of Manipur, and said to be a permanent resident, 

 but from the people calling it " Miyan " I should doubt its 

 breeding there, and the great majority of the Logtak boatmen 

 said that they had never seen its nest ; when I was at the lake 

 it was very abundant there. 



I saw it in Sylhet and in Cachar — in the former in several 

 places, in the latter only near Silchar itself. I know nothing 

 of its distribution in Assam. 



This species has been sent from Arakan and has been 

 observed near Thayetmyo, but there is no other record of its 

 occurrence elsewhere in British Burmah. 



945.— Anser cinereus, Mey. 



I saw a few specimens of this Goose at other smaller pieces 

 of water, and there were large numbers of them at the Logtak 

 lake. 



It occurs along and in the neighbourhood of the Brahmaputra 

 right up to Sadiya, and I saw it in Eastern Sylhet, and know 

 now of its occurrence in many parts of that district, but I have 

 no record as yet of its having been observed in Cachar. iVo 

 Goose that we know of occurs in any part of British 

 Burmah. 



[This species, although common in the Dibrugarh district, is 

 by no means so plentiful as A . indicus. This species is usually 

 found on the vast stretches of sand in that river, but occasion- 

 ally strays inland to wherever there are large pathars to feed. 

 In October 1884, when steaming from Jatrapore to Dhubri in 

 the " Fox, " a flock of about 60, who were closely packed, allow- 

 ed the steamer to approach within 60 yards before taking wing, 

 and as is usually the case in such occurrences there was not a 

 gun on board. — J. R. C] 



Colonel Graham, a great sportsman, and for many years 

 Deputy Commissioner of Dibrugarh, informed me that 946. — 

 Anser brachyrhymlms, BailL, occurred commonly on the Brah- 

 maputra. I cannot say whether he was in error or not. No 

 one else has recorded this species from any part of Assam, 

 Sylhet or Cachar, and I did not meet with it in Manipur. 



