MEGAL^MA. 583 



On the left bank of tlie Irawady at tlie above mentioned locality this species is 

 very common. 



Genus Nyctiornis, Swainson. 

 27. Nyctiornis athertoni, Jardine & Selby. 



Merops atJiertoni, Jard. & Selby, 111. Orn., vol. ii, pi. Iviii, 1825-43. 



Bucia nipalensis, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. v, p. 361^ 1836. 



Nyctiornis caruleus, Swainson, Classif. B., vol. ii, p. 333, 1837. 



Nyctiorms amherstiana, Royle, Himal. Botany, vol. i, p. 76, 1839. 



Nyctiornis ailiertoni, Mc'Clell., Proc. Zool. Soc, 1839, p. 155; Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 87, 1840; 

 id.. Cat. Mamm,, &c., Nepal, Coll. Hodgs., p. 58, 1846; Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 164, 

 1850; Gould, B. Asia, ii, pt. ii; Eeich., Handl. Merop., p. 81, pi. ccccliii, figs. 3262, 3263, 

 1852; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 89, 1854; Cab. & Heine, 

 Mus. Hein., th. ii, p. 132, 1860; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 211, 1862; Gray, Handl. B., 

 vol. i, p. 98, 1869; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 469; id.. Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., 

 p. 103, 1874; id.. Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 18; Fairbank, t. c, p. 394. 



Merops cyanogularis, Jerdon, Madr. Journ., vol. xi, p. 229, 1840. 



Bucia atkertoni, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc., Bengal, vol. x, p. 922, 1841. 



Iiapo23hila atkertoni, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xi, p. 104, 1842. 



Alcemerops paleazureus, Less., Rev. Zool., 1842, p. 262. 



NapopJiila meropina, Hodgs,, Gray^s Zool. Misc., p. 82, 1844. 



Alcemerojps atkertoni, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 52, 1849. 



a. h. c. Bhamo, 24th and 29th February 1868. 



I shot two of these birds at early morning, perched side by side on the branch 

 of a tree about 20 feet above a foot-path which ran along a patch of low tree- 

 jungle. 



Family— C^P/rOiV/i)^. 



Genus Megal^ma, Gray. 

 28. Me&al^ma hodgsoni, Bonap. 



Bucco caniceps, Hodgs., in Gray^s Zool. Misc., p. 85, 1844. 



Bucco lineatus, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xv, p. 12, 1846. 



Megalo&ma lineata, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 66, 1849; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B, 



Mus. E. Ind. Co., p. 636, 1856; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. i, p. 309, 1862. 

 Megalcema hodgsoni, Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 144, 1850 ; Goff ., Mus. P.-B. Buccones, p. 34, 1862 ; 



Gray, Cat. Capitonidse, B. Mus., p. 12, 1868 ; Marshall, Monogr. Capitonidse, pi. xxxvi; Hume, 



Stray Feathers, vol. v, 1877, p. 27; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. v, 1876, 



p. 70. 

 MegaUma Mc'Clellandi, Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., p. 637, 1856; Gray, Cat. 



Capitonidse, B. Mus., p. 12, 1868. 



a. — e. Shuaygoo, Upper Burma, 21st January 1868. 

 /. Bham6, 29th January 1868. 

 g. Bhamo, February 1868. 

 A. Bhamo, 7th September 1868. 



