1216 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HLST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXI.. 



Family Helioknixhid^e. 



1406. Heliopais personata.— Masked Finfoot. 



One evening, whilst fishing with my friend Mr. Pickthall, in a deep pooP 

 on the Ru stream, a bird which we took to be a duck, flew down and settled 

 with a loud grunting quack. My friend fired, and the bird, hard hit, 

 struggled into the elephant grass. On being driven out, it swam and dived 

 well for several minutes, until secured ; all the time it kept uttering its 

 monosyllabic grunt. It proved to be a fine male, and the skin is now in 

 Mr, Pickthall's possession. The date was March 9th, 1910. 



Family GrRuiDiE. 



1409. Grus ANTIGONE. — The Sarus. 



Cranes are not common : the only one I shot proved to be G. antigone 

 and not G. sharpii. 



1411. Anthropoides virgo, — Demoiselle Crane. 



On New Year's Day, 1909, I saw three of these birds, which I easily 

 identified with my glass, though they were too wary to allow of my shooting 

 any. There were, apparently, one old and two young birds. 



ORDER LIMICOL^E. 



Family ffiDioNEMiDJE. 



1419. EsACus REcuRviRosxRis. — Great Stone Plover. 

 Rare, but I met with it at Kyaukpyu. In N. Aracan I saw birds whicb 

 were probably OE. scolopa.r. 



Family GLAREOLiDiE. 



1425. Glareola orientalis. — Large Indian Pratincole. 



Very common and resident. In 1909 I was too late for eggs, but found 

 a young bird. In 1910, I determined to get eggs, and after several days' 

 hunting got the knack of it, when my Burman " boy " and I succeeded in 

 finding about twenty nests. The birds were breeding in paddy stubble, 

 near the sea, just outside Akyab town ; the nests are best found by 

 flushing the birds, and then watching them return, when they run to the 

 nest and squat down. The nests were all found during the last week in 

 April. 



1427. Glareola lactea. — Small Indian Pratincole. 



Much less common than G. orientalis, but resident and breeds. 



Family Parrid^. 



1428. Metopodius indicus. — Bronze-winged jacana. 

 Common. 



1429. Hv-DROPHASiANas OHiRUGUs. — Pheasaut-tailcd jacana. 

 Fairly common. 



