244 A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU. 
422.—Botaurus stellaris, Lin. (936.) 
Captain Jenkins shot two of these Bitterns near Pegu on 
the 2nd December. He saw several others. These were all 
in a swamp surrounded by paddy land. 
Both birds were femules and measured :—Length, 28°; 
expanse, 46 and 445; wing, 12:5 and 12:2; bill from gape, 
8°75 and 3°80. 
Tris yellow; eyelids greenish; lower mandible and margins 
of the upper pale green; remainder of upper mandible, and 
in front of eye, smoky brown; legs green, with a tinge of 
yellow ; claws horn colour. 
493.—Nycticorax griseus, Lin. (937.) 
Very common all over the province. 
424.—Tantalus leucocephalus, Penn. (988.) 
Occurs numerously from Pegu down to Rangoon, and up 
the Irrawaddy river as far as the plains extend. It is far 
more numerous in the rains than at other times. 
425.—Anastomus oscitans, Bodd. (940.) 
I procured one specimen at Thyetmyo many years ago, and 
have never met with it again. 
426.—Ibis melanocephala, Lath. (941.) 
Occurs in very large flocks in all the plains of Lower Pegu. 
427.—Graptocephalus davisoni, Hume, (942 dis.) 
A few pairs of this bird may be generally seen in the less 
frequented parts of the plains on either side the Canal, but they 
are very wary and difficult to shoot. In the dry weather they 
are fond of recently burnt up patches of grass land, where 
they may be seen stalking about for hours looking into cracks 
‘of the soil for small reptiles. 
I have heard of there being Black Ibis in the Irrawaddy 
valley, about Henzada and Bassein, and I expect they belong 
to this species. 
A note on the nidification of this Ibis will be found in 
8. F., V, p. 168, under the name J. papillosus. At the breeding 
season it has a most fearful cry which can be heard a couple 
of miles off. 
An adult bird from Pegu had the bill bluish, the iris orange, 
the skin of the head blackish brown, and the band round the 
neck white, tinged with blue; the legs pale coral colour, and the 
claws brown. 
