346 nURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIONS. 



repranlinn; Burmese oniitholog}-, whieli huve appeared in tlie pages of Stray Feathers, 

 and which will all repay perusal. That the present list is satisfactory cannot be 

 admitted, some species it doubtless omits which should be inserted, and many 1 fear 

 it contains, which in reality should be expunged, but anything like a critical 

 examination of the conflicting claims of allied species to recognition is as far beyond 

 the power of the compiler, as it is beyond the scope of the present work. 



Class AVES. 



Vertebrate, warm-blooded, oviparous animals, breathing by lungs, and clad with 

 featlu^rs. The lower jaw is articulated to the skull by an os quadratum, and the skull 

 to the atlas by a single occipital condyle. 



Order PICI. 



Woodpeckers. Tliit-touk. 



Bill wedge-shaped. Tongue highly extensile, fleshy, barbed at the tip. Tail stiff 

 at the points, and an organ of supjiort in climbing. Feet short, stout, iirst and fourth 

 toes turned backwards {ziigodactijluus). The two horns of the hyoid bone extend 

 round to the back of the head, forming a loop, which can be lengthened or shortened 

 by appropriate muscles. The Pici arc mainly insectivorous and breed in holes of 

 trees, laying white eggs, the males sharing the task of incubation. 



Family Picumnidse, 



Sasia ochracea, Hodg. Arakan. Pegu. Tenasscrim. 



»S'. ahmrmis, Tcm. apud Hume (juv.) (S.F. vi. p. 118). 



This species makes a wonderfully loud noise for its size. Davison writes : — 

 "I have more than once thought it must have been some large woodpecker, and was 

 astonished that I could not see it, and when at last I did discover the tiny object, 

 I felt quite as much astonished at the sound it was able to produce, as it was at my 

 sudden advent." 



Famili/ Picidse. 



Heiucihcus canente, Less. Arakan. Pegu. Tcnasserim. 



Hume is inclined to separate a race from Karen-ni, described by Lord Walden 

 as having the head "uniform deep black," which is a style of colouration wholly 

 abnormal and unknown in the present species (Hume, S.F. vi. p. 128). Blyth 



12. Notes on the Nidification of some Burmese Birds, by Eugene "W. Gates, C.E. S. F. V. p. 1-11. 



13. Notes on some Burmese Birds, by Eugene W. Gates. S. F. V. p. 211. 



14. Notes on tlie Nidification of some Burmese Birds, by W. Davison. S. F. V. p. 45.'!. 



15. A Eevised List of tlie Birds of Tenasserim, by A. O". Hume and W. Davison. S. F. VI. 



16. After the Adjutants, by C. T. Bingham. S. V. VII. p. 25. 



Tliis is a paper to make a naturalist's mouth water, describing the author's adventures in company 

 with iMr. Kurz, and the results of his scaling the limestone roclis near Mauhnaiu, on -whicli tlie 

 Adjutants breed. 



17. Notes on the Nidification of .some Burmese Birds, II., by Eugene W. Gates, C.E. S. P. VII. p. 40. 



18. A first Tentative List of the Birds of the Western half of the Malay Peninsula, by A. 0. Hume. 



S. F. VIII. p. 37. . •- •■ 



19. A rough Teutative List of the Birds of India, by A. 0. Hume. S. F. VIII. p. 73 (and Index 



p. 123 ) 



20. The Birds of the Western half of the Malay Peninsula, Second Notice, by A. 0. Hume. S. F. 



VIII. p. 151. 



21. Notes ou the Nidification of some Burmese Birds, by Eugene W. Gates, C.E. S. F. VIII. p. 1G4. 



22. Notes on .some Tenasscrim Birds, by Lt. C. T. Bingham. S. F. VIII. p. 190. 



23. On the Nidification of Dramas nid'mk, by A. G. Ihinie. S. F. VIII. p. 381. 



24. Notes on the Nidification of some Uorabills, by C. T. Bingham. S. F. VIII. p. 459. 



