RANGOON DISTRICT OF THE IRRAWADDY DELTA. 343 
[Some of the larger specimens, at any rate, probably belong 
to the nearly allied 7. albescens, Temminck, but I must confess 
myself unable to separate this species from minuéa, in winter 
plumage, with any certainty.—A. O. H.] 
886.—Tringa platyrhyncha, Temm. 
This species was excessively common throughout the entire 
district lying between the mouth of the Rangoon river and 
China-Ba-keer. It was also common along the margins of all 
the creeks and nullahs in the vicinity, extending up the Ran- 
goon river as far as the junction of the latter with its Peou 
tributary. Four males measured in the flesh show the follow- 
ing result :— 
Length, 6:5 to 7; expanse, 12°3 to 13:4; tail from vent, 
15 to 1:9; wing, 4 to 4°25; tarsus, °85 to ‘95; bill from gape, 
1-25 to 1-4. 
Trides, dark brown ; bill, legs, and feet, dusky black. 
887.—Eurynorhynchus pygmeeus, Lin. 
The neighbourhood of Elephant Point at the mouth of the 
Rangoon river has not as yet been recorded as a locality from 
whence this remarkable species has been obtained. It seems to 
be of rare occurrence in that district, for although several days 
were spent by me in careful and systematic search for it, yet 
IT was never able to see or to obtain more than a single speci- 
men. The specimen referred to, was one of a score or more of 
other birds, belonging to the smaller species of G?gialitis and 
Tringa, which were all killed at one shot as they were feeding 
together in a common flock of many hundreds on the sand- 
banks fringing high water mark. It is a female in winter 
plumage, and was shot on the Ist of December. The following 
dimensions were recorded by me in the flesh :— 
Length, 6°2; expanse, 12°15; tail from vent, 1:7; wing, 
3°92; tarsus, 8°3; bill from gape, ‘98; from forehead to tip, 
1:05 ; from behind nares to tip, 83; greatest width of upper 
mandible, :41; ditto of lower mandible, °38. 
The irides are of a deep dark brown; bill, legs, feet and 
claws, black; mid toes, ‘76 inches in length. 
888.—Calidris arenaria, Temm. 
This bird was somewhat rare. I have only met with it at 
Elephant Point where it feeds on the sands along with Sand- 
plovers and Stints. The following are the dimensions of a male 
bird recorded in the flesh :— 
Length, 7:75 ; expanse, 15; tail from vent, 2-2; wing, 4:9; 
tarsus, 1; bill from gape, 1°15. 
Irides, dark brown ;bill, legs, feet, and claws, black. 
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