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Rhynchaea eapensis, Linne.
TomaCUlar Names-—[Ohari, Nepal; Koire, Konebatta (Kolc), Singbhoom ;
Tibud, Pan-la wa, (Mahrali), Jlatnagiri ; Mail-ulan, (Tamil} Almlras ; Uaggerjcc,
HAVE no record of the occurrence of this species
in Kullu, Kashmir or any part of the Himalayas
west of the Satlej, or again in the Peshawar Valley,
or the extreme north-west portions of the Punjab.
It is found throughout the rest of the Empire,
including Ceylon, but excluding the Andamans and
Nicobars. But to the drier portions of the North-West
Provinces and Oudh, the Punjab, Rajputana and many parts
of the Central India Agency and portions of the Central Provinces,
it is practically only a rainy season visitant; and, while
it is by no means common in Pegu,* it is so rare in Tenasserim
Properf, that, although we know that it has been shot near
Moulmein, and have received a specimen thence, we have never,
in all the years during which we collected in that province, ourselves
met with a single specimen.
In the Malay Peninsula it is equally rare ; indeed the only
specimen we certainly know to have been obtained there was
one shot at Perak, by Lt. Kelham, of the 72nd Highlanders.
It occurs in Upper or Independent Burma, but is apparently
rare there, and Anderson obtained a single specimen at Momien.
It is said to have occurred in Siam, and probably does, but
I have seen no specimen thence, nor do I know the authority
on which Tickell asserts its occurrence there.
It has been recorded from Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and many
islands of the Philippine group, and occurs as a summer visitant
in Formosa, and throughout the eastern half, at any rate, of
China, as far north as Pekin. Prjevalski found it in South-East
* "Tbe Painted Snipe is a constant resident in all Pegu. It is nowhere common,
and four birds is the largest number I have seen together."—Eugene IV. Oates.
"t It appears to be rare in some others of the Eastern Districts also. Thus, writing
from North-East Cacfaar, Mr. lohn Inglis says :—
" The Painted Snipe is rarely obtained here. Out of some 500 Snipe which I
shot last autumn, I only obtained two female painted ones."
Unt in the valley of Assam, especially the eastern end, Colonel Graham writes to
me that it is common.