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Show 1873.] DISTRIBUTION OF ASIATIC BIRDS. 661 leucura, Palceornis torquatus, Passer assimilis, Temenuchus bur-mannicus, Francolinus phayrei, Oxylophus jacobinus. Of the Irrawaddy north of Bhamo we know nothing; but it may be safely assumed that the character of the avifauna becomes more and more Himalayan as the great mountains which hem it in on the north and west are approached. The birds collected by Dr. Anderson on the hills between Burmah and Yunnan prove to a certain extent that this is the case, and make us very anxious to know more about them. In Mr. Blyth's list, I find, if the waders and water-birds are omitted, that about 363 species are recorded. per cent. Common to India and the Malay peninsula 97 26*5 Found in India 193 53*5 Found in the Malay peninsula 27 7*5 Peculiar to Burmah, or Burmah and Tennasserim 46 12*5 Thus it appears that in Burmah, Aracan, and Pegu the Indian birds are to the Malayan as 7 to 1, a much larger proportion than I should have expected. Some of the most remarkable of the species peculiar to this region are: - Rhyticeros plicatus, Bl. Pomatorhinus hypoleucos, Bl. Megalaima cyanotis, Bl. Pyctorhis albirostris, Jerd. Mulleripicus crawfurdi, Gr. Ixos blanfordi, Jerd. Gecinulus viridis, Bl. Iora lafresnayi, Hartl. Lyncornis cerviniceps, Gould. Temenuchus burmannicus, Jerd. Crypsirhina cucullata, Jerd. nemoricola, Jerd. Pitta cyanea, Bl. Passer flaveolus, Bl. Anthocincla phayrei, Bl. Arachnothera aurata, Bl. Culicipeta tephrocephalus, Bl. Polihierax insignis, Walden. Muscitrea cinerea, Bl. Francolinus phayrei, Bl. Sitta neglecta, Walden. Turnix blanfordi, Bl. TENNASSERIM. The Tennasserim provinces, which, as I here take them, extend from about the latitude of Martaban to the isthmus of Krau, though very similar to Burmah, show, as might be expected, a marked diminution of Indian birds and a corresponding increase of Malayan ones. This is more particularly the case in the mountains of the south, where Col. Tickell, the only naturalist I am aware of who has visited these hills, found, besides other Malay forms, no less than 7 of the 9 known species of Broadbills (Euryleemidee), a family which is only represented in the Himalaya by 2 species. In the same hills, however, which reach an elevation of about 7000 feet, Col. Tickell got new species of Trochalopteron, Pomatorhinus, Pteruthius, Sibia, Garrulax, and Machlolophus, all showing a strong affinity with the Eastern Himalaya. This leads me to |