MEGALXJRUS. 689 



I found this bird in the low shrubby jungle near Momien, at 4,500 feet, and 

 always in large flocks, some thirty or forty together, which made short, rapid and 

 low flights from bush to bush, uttering a sharp and constantly repeated chirp. 



Y&mAj—MEGALURIBjn. 



Genus Chatarrh^a, Blyth. 

 128. Chatarrh^a gularis, Blyth. Plate XLVIII. 



Chatarrhma gularis, Blyth, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xxiv, p. 478, 1855; Blanf., Ibis, 1870, 



p. 460 ; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1875, p. 124. 

 Malacocercus gularis, Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 279, 1869. 

 Crateropus gularis, Blanf., Ibis, 1874, p. 76 ; id., Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 329; Blyth, Journ. As. 



Soc., Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, ex. No., p. 117. 



b. t Mandalay, 26th September 1868. 



c. d. $ Mandalay, 24th and 26th September 1868. 

 e. Yaylaymaw, 6th January 1875. 



b. $ Bhamo, 6th February 1868. 

 /. 9 Ava, 4th October 1868. 



This species is common at Bham6 among the long tall rank grass of the swamps 

 behind the town. It is also abundant in similar localities to the east of Mandalay. 



Genus Megalurus, Horsfield. 

 129. Megalurus palustris. 



Megalurus palustris, Horsf., Tr. Linn. Soc, vol. xiii, p. 159, 1820; Gray, Gen. B., vol. i, p. 169, 

 1845 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 139, 1849; Bonap. Consp., t. i,p. 279, 1850; 

 Cab., Mus. Hein.,th. i, p. 45, 1850; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, vol. i, 

 p. 330, 1854; Jerdon, B. Ind., vol. ii, p. 70, 1863; Blyth, Ibis, 1865, p. 30; Gray, Handl. 

 B., i, p. 206, 1869; Blanf., Ibis, 1869, p. 467 ; Hume, Nests and Eggs, Ind. B., i, p. 276, 

 1873; Hume, Stray Feathers, 1874, p. 476, 1875, p. 124; Walden, Tr. Zool. Soc, ix, p. 189, 

 1875; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, ex. No., p. 118; Ball, Stray 

 Feathers, 1876, p. 233; Godwin-Austen, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xlv, 1876, p. 78; Gates, 

 Stray Feathers, 1877, p. 156. 



Malurns marginalis, Temm., PI. Col., tom. iii, pi. Ixv, fig. 2, 1823 [ex Review, MS.) ; KittL, Voy. 

 Liitke (Postels), Bd. iii, p. 326. 



a. b. c. d. S ? Bhamo, 23rd and a4th February 1868. 

 e. S Tsitkaw, 6th February 1875. 



Common throughout Upper Burma. 



