Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author.

  • Edward Blyth
Date:
1875
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Credit: Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    544. T. PLtiMBirES (J. 833). T. plumbipes, Hodgson, 13eng. Sport. Mag. 1837, p. 345. Tenasserim Specimens are quite similar to those from Nipal. [Tliayet Myo, Karen nee, Tonghoo (TV. R.). Not separable from Malaccan examples; but differing somewhat from Javan T. pagnaxf Order GRALLATORES. Waders. N.L.—Bustards are foreign to the Indo-Chinese countries, but a straggler of the Likh Florikim (Sypheotides aurita) is recorded to have been shot at Sandoway, Arakan (Bengal Sport. Mag. 1835, p. 151). Tribe LIMIC0L2E (Plovers and Snipes). Fam. Charadriadae. Plovers. *545. Aesacus RECUR VIROSTRIS (J. 858). Common along the banks of rivers. [Kyasoo creek (TV. A.).] 546. Oedicnehus crepitans (J. 859). Yenan-khyoung (JV. II. Blanford). 547. Chjettusia cineiiea (J. 854). Bassein, China and Japan.'-' [Tonghoo (TV. A.); Ye (D.). As Professor Schlegel (l. c.) gives Mr. Blytli’s title precedence, it may be accepted for the present. Further inves¬ tigation may, however, show that Temminck and Schlegel’s title was published at an earlier date. The Report in which Mr. Blytli first described C. cinerea was for March, 1842, but was only actually published with the Proceedings of the A. S. B. for June, 1842.] *'548. Sarcogramma atrinuchalis. Sarcogramma atronuchalis, nobis, J. A. S. B. xxxi. p. 345, note. Common from Arakan to Malacca. It has much more black on the nape than the Indian race, margined with white below, more or less developed. [Yey-tho, Tliayet Myo, Tonghoo, Karen nee (TV. A.).] * II. Schlcgcl, Mus. dcs Pays-Bas, Cursores, p. 69.