on some Burmese Birds. 
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560. Glareola orientalis. 
Towards the end of April, in both years that I was on 
the frontier of British Burma, these Pratincoles came into 
Tonghoo in large numbers for a few days on their way 
northwards. They might be seen every evening at dusk 
hawking after insects among the houses on the river-bank. 
561. Glareola lactea. 
The Small Pratincoles breed in great numbers on the sand- 
bauks of the Sittang in April and May, just before the 
rains commence. In the year 1875 the change of the mon¬ 
soon took place nearly a month before the usual time, and 
consequently the sandbanks, on which were lying hundreds 
of eggs of this bird, Seena aurantia, Sternula javanica, and 
Rhynchops albicollis, were covered with water, and in a few 
days every egg was swept away. 
570. Limosa .egocephala. 
I only once saw this Godwit in Burma. It is a rare bird, 
according to my experience, at Tonghoo. 
583. Bhyncklea bengalensis. 
On the 14th September 1874 I extracted a perfect egg 
from a female that I had shot. This seems a late date for 
the bird to be breeding; but I observe (Hume's ‘ Nests and 
Eggs of Indian Birds/ p. 587) that Mr. Layard has known 
an egg taken from a Painted Snipe in November in Ceylon. 
586. GRUS ANTIGONE. 
(Burmese, “ Gyo-gya-gyee.") 
The Sarus Crane is tolerably common in the valley of the 
Sittang. Mr. Hume does not include it in his paper on the 
birds of Upper Pegu (S. F. iii.), nor in his lists of the 
Tenasserim birds in ‘ Stray Feathers.' 
It breeds near Tonghoo; but I have never myself found 
its nest, but have had the eggs brought to me by the Burmese. 
They described the nest as a pile of weeds and mud, situated 
generally in the middle of a swamp. 
On the 29 th September 1876 a Bur man brought me an 
egg and a newly hatched Sarus chicken. He had taken the 
