( 2:<i ) 



till th(> hill-tops rnii dowu to as low as 5,00(1 ft. iu the south of Yunnan. The 

 eastern lialf of the jiroviuee is somewhat K>ss luoiintainoiis, and here the country 

 is more of the uaturo of a plateau, plains are more numerous, and man)- of them 

 contain lakes of considerable extent (cf. Major Davies' Yitn-nan). From June 

 to .September inclusive there is seeming!\- a heavy rainftill in all but the northern 

 portions of the province. 



The sheltered valleys, mostly running north and south, are said to contain a 

 rich tropical vegetation (cf Franchet, Ball. Miis. Puri.-t, 1890, p. UOi, so that it 

 is hardly surprising to find the avifauna of Southern Yunnan approaching that 

 of the adjoining countries, Burma and Tonkin ; while the birds met with in tiie 

 north of the province are naturally not unlike those of Tibet and the connecting 

 Himalayan chains. 



Tlie name in parentheses after the entry of each sjiecies indicates the collector 

 or the collection iu which the example may now be found. 



1. Francolinus chinensis (Osbeck). 



Salwin Valley, AV. Yunnan, 1. v. 00. (Rippon). 



Also obtained by Wingate, Ching-tung, Yunnan, March 8, 1899 (cf. Ibis, 

 1900, p. 605). 



2. Ithagenes cnientus (Hardw.). 



Cited by Oustalet as having been obtained by Prince Henry of Orleans in 

 Yunnan {Bull. Mus. Paris, 1896, p. 185). 



Sharpe {Handl. i. p. 33) gives " Himalayas, Nepal to Bhutan and Thibet " as 

 its range. 



3. Tragopan temmincki (J. E. Gray). 



Also said to have been taken by Prince Henry of Orleans in Yunnan 

 {op. cit.). 



4. Pucrasia meyeri Mad. 



Obtained by Prince Henry of Orleans {op. cit.), jjrobably in the valley of the 

 Upper Mekong (N.W. Yunnan). 



5. Gennaeus andersoni (Elliot). 



Mentioned in Oustalet's list of the birds collected in Yunnan by Prince 

 Henry of Orleans {op. cit.). 



As Sharpe {Ilandl. i. p. 36) gives the Kachin Hills as the only habitat of this 

 bird, it is probable that the Prince's specimens (if they came from Yunnan at all) 

 ■were obtained in the extreme north-west of that jirovince. 



6. Gennaeus nycthemerus (Linn.). 

 S ad. ; S.W. Yunnan, April 1899 (Wingate). 



T. Bambusicola fytchii Anders. 



Aoderson, Wesirm Ynmiiiii. ii. p. dTA. pi. liv. 



Anderson states {op. cit.) that in March 1868 this bird was to be found on 

 the old rice clearings on the hillsi<hs at Ponsec, near the Burmese frontier. 



