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This species is common in Pegu and Arakan, but we have not 

 observed it in Tenasserim. 



From the same locality has been reported to me (no specimen 

 sent) 994!.—Ehi/nchops albicollis, Sws. ; and this is the only- 

 record I have of its occurrence in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar, 

 though I observed it myself only a few miles from Lakhai at 

 the south-west corner of Sylhet. 



This species is common in the Salween, but we believe occurs 

 in no part of Tenasserim east or south of this. It is common 

 in the Sittang and in all the rivers of Pegu and Arakan. 



From the Barak river, near Dilkushah in N.-E. Cachar, 

 Mr. Inglis obtained and sent me as pecimen of 997. — Phceton 

 jlavirostris^ Brandt. Of course this was an accidental straggler, 

 some storm-tossed wanderer flown inland, like the Skua (Lestris 

 pomarMnus) procured by Tickell in a meadow near Moulmein. 

 Still it has occurred and is entitled to a place in the Assam list, 

 though it has not occurred, and is never likely to occur, any- 

 where else in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



In British Burmah it has occurred on the southern coast of 

 Pegu, but this is all I yet know of its distribution there. 



1003.— Pelecanus javanicus, Horsf. 



I only observed a single specimen of this species in Manipur, 

 and that was at the Logtak lake, but I could by no manner of 

 means get within shot of it (I had no rifle with me), and after I 

 had shot at it with S. S. G. green cartridges out of a heavy 

 duck gun two or three times it left the lake. 



I have as yet apparently no record of the occurrence of this 

 species in Assam, Sylhet or Cachar. 



This species visits the plains of Lower Pegu, and the corres- 

 ponding plains of Tenasserim west of the Salween, in enormous 

 numbers during the rainy season and breeds there. Tenasserim 

 they leave in November. In Pegu they remain till the end of 

 February. Elsewhere in Burmah, and even in these localities 

 between March and August, this Pelican is extremely rare. 



1004.— Pelecanus philippensis, Gm. 



This species was in considerable force at the Logtak lake ; 

 there must have been nearly a hundred when I was there, but 

 later in the season, according to the boatmen, they visit the 

 lake in thousands. 



