from the District of Karen-nee, Bvrmah. 349 



It was hardly to be expected that the trip would produce 

 a very great number of novelties, owing to the hurried way 

 in which the party travelled through the country ; but still 

 several new species Avill be found among my birds, of which 

 I collected during the five weeks between four and five hun- 

 dred skins, referable to about one hundred and fifty species'^. 

 This collection has since been added to by the exertions of 

 a brother officer, who spent some weeks during April and 

 May in the hills, at altitudes varying from three to seven 

 thousand feet, and who very kindly gave me the birds that 

 he had collected. 



Of three or four of the species that I obtained in Karen- 

 nee, I recognized the descriptions in ' Stray Feathers ' (vol. ii. 

 p. 441-447), viz. Macroptjgia assimilis, Hume, Garrulus leu- 

 cotis, Hume (since obtained within a mile of Tonghoo), Gamp- 

 sorhynchus torquatus, Hume, &c. These species were ob- 

 tained by jVIr. Davison in the Tenasserim provinces at much 

 the same time and altitudes at which I was working nearly a 

 hundred miles further north. 



We started into the hills on the 5th March, in an easterly 

 direction, making a gradual ascent. On the second day the 

 sight of Analcipus trailli warned me that we were somewhere 

 near 2000 feet above the sea. From day to day we marched 

 at one time over hills of granite, at another over sharp ridges 

 of limestone, the nature of the fauna varying as we ascended 

 to a greater elevation. At 3500 to 4000 feet the jungles as- 

 sumed a great change, stunted evergreen trees and the Bur- 

 mese pine (P. latteri ? Brandis) taking the place of the larger 

 trees of the forests below. A great change also had taken 

 place among the birds. No Bulbuls, no Drongos, and very 

 few Woodpeckers ; but Shrike Tits [Leiothrix] in abundance, 

 and the more homely Titmice [Parus), Grey Creepers {Cer- 

 thia), and Green Warblers [Phylloscopus] appeared. The 

 noisy Cyanops franklini, Bl.f, had long since replaced the 



* Notes on this collection, and on all the others made at Rangoon and 

 Tonghoo by this iudefatiguable collector, will shortly appear in the J. A. S. 

 of Bengal. — W. 



t Megal(pma ramsayi, Waldeu (Ann. & Mag. N.H. (4) xv. p. 400). — W, 



