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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    *573. Tkinga subahqtjata (J. 882). Arakan, Tenasserim. *574. T. platyeiiynciia (J. 886). T. platyrhyncha, Tcm.; Gray and Mitchell, Gen. Birds, pi. 1.57, fig. 2. Arakan. *575. T. saiina (J. 884). T. saiina, Pallas ; T. damacensis, Horsfield; T. subminuta, Middendorff. Arakan, Tenasserim. [Rangoon, Tonghoo ( TP. R.). While T. damacensis, Horsf., remains uniclentilied, it will he best to adopt Middendorff’s title of subminuta for this species. Mr. Swinhoe identifies T. saiina, Pallas, with T. albescens, Tern., a species which has a red neck and throat in spring. For it, T. ruficollis is the oldest title.] *576. T. tehminckii (J. 885). Arakan. [Tonghoo (TV. A.).] 577. Eueynobhynchus pygmjgus (J. 887). E. pygmcea (Lin.), Gray and Mitchell, Gen. Birds, pi. 157, fig. 1; Gould, B. As. pt. xxi. pi. 13 ; Ibis, 1869, pi. xii. Estuaries of rivers, on extensive mud-banks left by the tide. *578. Philomachus pugnax (J. 880). Arakan. [Moerhing’s generic title cannot he used, and as Leach gave uo generic characters, and was not substituting a title, Pavoncella must fall, and Machetes, Cuv., be adopted.] 579. Gallinago scolopacina (J. 871). Common in Upper Burma. [Tonghoo (TP. R.); Pabyouk (A.).] *580. G. stenuba (J. 870). The most common snipe of the Indo-Chinese and Malayan countries. [Scolopax stenura, Kuhl, MS.; S. sthenura, Bp., Au. St. Nat. 1829 ; S. horsfieldii, J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. 1831, p. 2. Mr. G. R. Gray (II. L. No. 10344) most unaccountably gives Dr. Gray’s title the precedence.]