196 NOTES ON SOME TENASSERIM BIRDS. 



he had lost none of his native check, and after the first few 

 days used to , perch composedly on the corner of my table 

 while I was having my breakfast, and regale me with his 

 opinion on things in general. 



782. — Alsocomus puniceus, Tick. 



I first noticed this bird in March 1877, when I stopped a 

 Karen who was carrying three Pigeons, half-plucked, in his 

 hand, to look at them, and found they were all three of this 

 species. Subsequently 1 saw them pretty frequently in ones or 

 twos near to that same man's village in the Siuzaway Reserve, 

 but never was fortunate enough to secure any, the fact being 

 that thinking it was probably common all over Tenasserira, I 

 did not take any particular pains to shoot them. 1 left the 

 Sinzaway Reserve in May 1877, and have never been there 

 since ; nor have I had the luck to even see one from that time 

 to this, though I have been all over the Zamee, Wmyeo, 

 Thoungyeen, and Houndraw jungles. 



The call of this Pigeon is a soft mew, not unlike that of 

 Carpophaga cenea^ only not half so loud or booming. 



842.— Glareola orientalis, Leach. 



One specimen shot at Kaukaryit out of a small party on the 

 5th April 1878. 



867.— Scolopax rusticola, Lin. 



On the 28th April 1879, I flushed an undoubted Wookeock, 

 among some willows on the bank of the Gyne River. Unfor- 

 tunately I had no gun in my hand. I don't think T could have 

 made a mistake, as I was familiar with the bird in my boyhood. 



870. — Gallinago sthenura, KuM. 

 871. — Gallinago gallinaria, Gm. 



It is very strange that at the beginning of the Snipe season 

 one gets only the former of these two birds, and at the end 

 chiefly the latter, with only one or two perhaps of the former. 



G. sthenura comes in about the middle of August around 

 Moulmein. A register kept by Captain Dodd, the Master Attend- 

 ant of Moulmein, a keen sportsman, showed the 17th August 

 as the earliest date on which he has shot his first Snipe, during 

 the last seven or eight years. 



