VERTEBRATES OF THE JALRAIGURI DISTRICT, BENGAL, loo. 



Lesser Florican or Likh (1416), Si/pheotis aurifa. — Decidedly uncommon. 

 Two were shot at Neora Nuddy tea garden and reported to Travers. 

 This garden is not very far from Baradighi. O'Donel has recorded 

 them from Hasimara in Vol. XXII, No. 1, page 201 of this Journal. 

 He has only seen them in April, May and June. 



Bengal Florican (1417), Syjiheolis hengalensls. — This fine bird is steadily 

 decreasing owing to the indiscriminate shooting of hens and the in- 

 creasing acreage under tea. It breeds in March and April, the. 

 eggs according to O'Donel, being often laid in tea and consequently 

 destroyed during cultivation. One was shot near Kamshai during the 

 X'mas week of 1918. 



Stone-Curlew (1418), CEdicnemus scoIoimx. — Common. 



Great Stone-Plover (1419), Esacus reciirvirostris. — Found on the larger rivers 

 and breeds on the Sankos. 



Small Indian Pratincole (1427), Glareola lactea. — Common and breeds on^ 

 the Sankos. 



Bronze-winged Jacana (1428), MetojiOcUus indicus. — Common in centre and 

 south of the district. 



Pheasant-tailed Jacana [14'2':)), Hydrophasianus chirurgus. — Found in south 

 of the district. 



Red-wattled Lapwiug (1431), Sarcogrammus indicus. — Very common. 



Indian Spur-winged Plover (I4oo), Hoplopterus ventralis. — Very common. 



Eastern Golden Plover (1439), Charadrius fulvtis. — Seen in open country. 



Grey Plover (1441), Squalarola helvetica. — Seen at Nilpara. 



Kentish Plover (1446), Mgialitis cdexandnna. 



Little liinged Plover (1447), Mgicditis duMa. 



Long-billed Hinged Plover ( 1449), JEgialitis placida. 



The Ibis-bill (14o;3), Ihidorhynclms struthersi. O'Donel has shot them on the 

 Tista and Torsa rivers. He never saw them beyond two miles from 

 the hills. 



Common Sandpiper {\-iQO), Totannshypoleucus. 



Wood Sandpiper (1461), Totem us glareola. 



Green Sandpiper (1462), Totanus ochropus. 



The Greenshank (1466), Totanus glottis. 



Little Stint (1471), Tringa viinuta. 



Temminck's Stint (J474), Tringa temmincld. 



The Woodcock (1482), Scolopax rusticola. — Woodcock are rarer in the Duars . 

 than one would expect and although the district is not far from their- 

 haunts in the hills, they seldom visit us in the cold weather. Travers 

 has seen one and one was shot by Mr. Whitmore in the Nagrakata 

 district. Mr. K. S. Hutchinson, d.i.g. Police, Jalpaiguri records ten 

 birds put up twice in tiger beats at Gorumara on 11th and 12th April 

 1920. This is exceedingly late for them to be in the plains; they 

 should be pretty high up in the hills by then. 



Wood-Snipe (1483), Gallinago nemoricola.— According to sportsmen who have 

 been in the district many years, this bird was commoner before so • 

 much jungle was cleared for tea. O'Donel says it is apparently a 

 very irregular winter visitor. He put up three while out shooting along 

 a forest stream in November 1915 but although he has searched the 

 same stream since then he has never seen any more. Travers has 

 shot one and according to him it is very rare. Stuart Baker mentions • 

 it as met with in Buxa and Jalpaiguri and that he got a bird shot m 

 the swamps at the foot of the hills in May but we have found no- 

 other records except those mentioned above. 



Common Snipe (1484), Gallinago coelestis. 



