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Notes on some Burmese Birds. 
buff. I observe that I have recorded my specimens shot in 
the Andamans as having the bill purplish lake, irides red, 
and legs dull pinkish buff. 
-f 4 ) 26 . Fulica atra. 
Occurs at Tonghoo. 
629. Xema brunneicephala. 
Rarely found so high up the Sittang as Tonghoo. I only 
once obtained a specimen, in October. 
635. Seena aurantia. 
636. Sterna javanica. 
Both these species breed in large numbers on the sand¬ 
banks of the Sittang in March, April, and May. 
637. Sternula minuta. 
Breeds on the sandbanks of the Sittang. 
639. Rhynchops albicollis. 
The eggs, which are generally deposited on a sandbank, 
are very much like those of Seena aurantia ; and therefore the 
most careful identification of the bird to which eggs found on 
the sand belong is necessary. 
I have found the remains of fish-bones, mixed with a con¬ 
siderable amount of grit and sand, in the stomach of one of 
these birds. 
646. Sarcidiornis melanonota. 
The Comb-Duck breeds in the Tonghoo district in July 
and August. Burmese have assured me that they breed on 
trees in colonies; but I cannot vouch for the truth of this 
statement, as I have never myself seen the nest*. 
On the 21st September a native brought me three live 
ducklings which he had caught in a swamp. He stated that 
the nest in which the young birds were hatched out was 
situated on a low bush in the swamp. 
647. Dendrocygna arcuata. 
(Burmese, “ Tse-se-le.”) 
This is the common Whistling Teal of the Tonghoo side 
of the Yomas, D. major being rare. On the Thyetmyo side 
* [Cf. A. Anderson, Ibis, 1874, p. 220, where the nesting-habits of this 
species are fully described.—E dd.] 
