386 BURMA, ITS PEOri.E AXB I'llODUCTIONS. 



Pastoe kosecs, L. Andamans. 



An occasional visitant {fide Tytler). 



SiritxiA JiALAiiAiiicA. Arakan. Pegu. Tonasserim. 



S. -NKMoKicoLA, JiTclon. Pcgu. Touug-ngoo. 



Temenuchus leucoptenis, Hume. 



S. Blythii, Jerdon. 



This species, according to WalJcn, replaces tlie last in Upper Pegu. 



S. PAGOD.VErsi, Gmel. Arakan (rare). 



S. A-\DAMAXEXsis, Tytler. ATidamans. Nicobars. 



S. EKYTHRopYGiA, Blyth. Car Kicobar. 



S. Bi'KMANicA, Jerdon. Toung-ngoo. Karen-ni. 



S. sTuiixiXA, Pall. Martaban. Teuasserim. Andamans. Xicobars. 

 Pador dauricus, Gmel. 



A rare cold weather visitant. 



S. srs'ENsis, Gmol. (Said to winter in Pegu.) 



Saraglossa spilopteka, Yig. • Toung-ngoo. Karen Hills at 2000 ft. 



Calorxis AFFUfis, Hay. Tippera. Arakan. Nicobars. 



C. CHALYB-Eus, Horsf. Tcnasserim. 



C. Tyileri, Hume. Andamans. Nicobars. 



EULABINiE. 



Eulabes .tavanensis, Osbcck. Sikkira. Pegu. Tcnasserim. Java. 



£. infeniiedia, Hay. Andamans. !Nicobars. 



£. Andamanensis, Tytler. 



According to Lord Walden, there are two species or races of Eulabes in Sumatra, 

 specimens from the south-east of the island being identical with those from East 

 Java, whilst specimens from the north-west of Sumatra agree witli those from 

 Singapore and Malacca. Hume adds, " But I have reason for sujjpo.sing that possibly 

 a break in the fauna occurs across Sumatra, just as it does across Tcnasserim, between 

 Tavoy and Mergui, and that while many s])ecies remain unclianged, throughout the 

 whole length of the island, of others two distinct forms occur, the one to the west 

 and the other to the east, the westward one is such cases being identical with that 

 of the Malayan Peninsula, and the eastern with those of Java and Borneo." Hume 

 describes this species as gradually decreasing in size as you recede from the Straits 

 to Sikkim throughout the length of Tcnasserim, Pegu and Arakan, and tlie decrease 

 in size continues if you double back south across tlie continental area to Sumlialpur 

 and the tributary Mehals. This remark refers to tlie birds as a whole, and individual 

 cases excepted. In no other respect do the birds differ save in size, and the 

 dwindling of this Malayan form in the uncongenial area of continental India is 

 a curious and significajit fact in the distribution of animals, and testifies to the 

 potency of those unseeen and inappreciable laws which regulate tlie origin and 

 spread of species. The Andaman and Nicobar races are differentiated by trifling but 

 fairly constant proportions of the bill as contrasted with Malayan and Indian 

 examples (S.F. vi. p. 396). 



Ampeliceps coronatds, Blylh. Toung-ngoo. Tenasserim. Cochin-C'liina. 



Famili/ Corvidse. 



Bill strong, entire, rarely notched. Nostrils thickly shaded by stiff incumbent 

 bristles. Feet strong. Birds mostly of large size. Omnivorous. 



DENDROCITTIX.Tl. 

 Dexduocitta rufa, Scop. Arakan. Pegu. Tcnasserim north of Mergui. 



The common Indian magpie. 



