MEGAL^MA. 583 



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

 very common. 



Genus Nyctiornis, Swainson. 

 27. Nyctiornis athertoni, Jardine & Selby. 



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



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



Nydiornis cmruleus, Swainson, Classif. B., vol. ii, p. 333, 1837. 



Nyctiornis amhersiiana, Eoyle, Himal. Botany, vol. i, p. 76, 1839. 



Nydiornis athertoni, Mc'Clell., Proc. Zool. Soc., 1839, p. 1.55; 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 ; Reich., Handl. Merop., p. 81, pi. ccecliii, 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, I860; 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, /. c, p. 394. 



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



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



Napophila athertoni, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xi, p. 104, 1842. 



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



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



Alcemerops athertoni, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 52, 1849. 



a. b. 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 trecr 

 jungle. 



Family— CAPITONIBJE. 



Genus Me&al^ma, Gray. 



28. MEGALiEMA 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. 



Megalmma 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. 



Megalmma 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. 

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

 Capitonidffi, B. Mus., p. 12, 1868. 



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

 /. Bhamo, 29th January 1868. 

 g. Bhamo, February 1868. 

 h. Bhamo, 7th September 1868. 



