684 AYES. 



Metopidins incUcus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc, Bengal, p. 273_, 1849; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. iii, 

 p. 708, 1864; Ball, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 431; Hume, t. c, p. 483; id.. Stray Feathers, 

 1875, p. 183; id.. Nests and Eggs, p. 591, 1873 ; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, 

 vol. xliv, extra No., p. 157, 1875; Fairbank, Stray Feathers, 1876, p. 263; Armstrong, t. c, 

 p. 348; Butler, op. cit., p. 212. 



a. b. c. d. Bhamo, February 1868. 



e. Tsitkaw, Upper Burma, 7th February 1875. 



Common around Bhamo. 



Family— G^^C/7i;^. 



Genus Geus, Linn. 

 206. Grus ANTIGONE, Pallas. 



Ardea antigone, Linn., Syst. Nat., t. i, 1766, p. 235 ; Gmelin, op. cit., 1788, p. 632. 

 Grus antigone, Pallas, Zoog. Rosso-Asiat., vol. ii, 1831, p. 102. 

 Grus iorquata, Vieillot, Gal. Ois., t. ii, th. 256, 1825. 

 Grus orientalis, Franklin, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1831. 

 Antigone torquata, Bonap. Consp., vol. iijp. 100, 1850. 



a. b. Tsitkaw, March 1868 and March 1875. 



This crane is distributed over Upper Burma and the high country beyond. 



Prom our camp at Ponsee, at an elevation of 3,300 feet, I observed, in the 

 beginning of March, great numbers of this bird passing in the direction of the 

 Burmese valley, and flying in V-shaped flocks. My attention was first attracted to 

 them by their loud call overhead, for the birds were so distant as to appear mere 

 specks. When the flock in advance was right over the summit of the high moun- 

 tain, on the slope of which our camp was pitched, the birds flew round in a great 

 circle and continued doing so, until nine other flocks came up, and each circling 

 round commingled with the others. They then marshalled off into two great bands, 

 which broke up again into V-shaped flocks, as they continued their flight. I counted 

 about sixty in a flock, and as the flocks were nearly of uniform strength, there 

 could not have been fewer than 600 birds. 



Genus Palcinellus, Bechst. 

 207. Palcinellus nurus, Scop. 



Le Courly verd, Briss. Orn., t. v, p. 326, pi. xxvii, fig. 2, 1760. 



Le Courly marron, Briss., t. c, p. 329, 1760. 



Le Courly hrun d' Amerique, Briss., t. c, p. 330, 1760. 



Le Courly varie de Mexique, Briss., t. c, p. 333, 1760. 



Tantalus falcinellus, limn., ^jEt.'Ndii.,i.\,^. 241, 1766; Yarr., Br. B.,, vol. ii, p. 505, 1843; 



Jaub. & Barth., Lap. Rich. Orn., p. 368, 1858. 

 Bcolopax rufa, Scop., Ann., i, p. 93, 1769. 



