416 ON BIEDS FROM BUEMA. [1875. 



A. M. X. H. DescHj)fio» of a. vew Species of Pigeon from the Karen Hills. By Akthuk, Viscount Walden, 

 ^'"'■^'T>,3^'^" P.Z.S., F.R.S. [From the 'Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' ser. 4, vol. xvi., 



September 1875.] 



DUCULA GRISEICAPILLA, n. Sp. 



Chin and throat pure white ; remainder of lower surface pale grey, the breast being tinged 

 with lilac ; back of neck vinous ; interscapulary region brown with a vinous tinge ; wing-coverts 

 brown, like the back, but not so strongly tinted with vinous ; quills dark brown, almost black ; 

 uropygium and upper tail-coverts dark ash; rectrices above dark brown, with a broad grey 

 terminal band; lower surface of rectrices pale grey; under tail-coverts pale cream-colour; 

 forehead, crown, nape, cheeks, and ear-coverts pure French grey. 



Wing 9-5 inches, tail 8-5, bill from forehead 1, tarsus 1, middle toe 1-75. 



" Iris ( 2 ) greyish white ; orbits grey-brown ; bill reddish plum-colour, pale at tip " 

 ( Wardlaw Ramsay). 



Described from examples obtained by Lieutenant Wardlaw Eamsay on the Karen hills*, at 

 from 4000 to 4200 feet. A representative form of D. insignis and I), hadia. 



Ibis, 1S75, Xotes on Birds from Burma. By Arthur, Viscount AValden, F.R.S. 



p. 458. 



[From 'The Ibis,' October 1875.] 



Tx a supplementary number of the ' Journal ' of the Asiatic Society of Bengal will be found a 

 list of the birds of Burma, compiled by the late Mr. Blyth. Since it was written three gentlemen 

 have very materially increased our knowledge of the species of birds which inhabit that part of 

 Asia. Upper Pegu has been most zealously and successfully investigated by Mr. Gates; and 

 the results of that gentleman's discoveries, and also those of Captain Feilden, have been made 

 known by Mr. Hume (Str. Feath. iii. pp. 1-11)4) in a paper containing numerous most useful 

 and interesting field-notes by those gentlemen. Large collections have been made at many 

 points in the northern half of Tenasserim by Mr. Davison, a bare list of the birds obtained 

 having been published by Mr. Hume {op. cit. ii. pp. 467-484). In the province of Tonghoo, 

 and in the country of the Karens, Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay, after working the vicinity of 

 Rangoon, has, for some time past, been vigorously collecting. Several new species have been 

 Ibis, 1875, discovered by him ; and many species not known to possess so extended a range have, through 

 P" '^^^' his exertions, been added to the Burmese avifauna. The researches of all the gentlemen I have 

 named enabled me to considerably extend the list of Burmese species as left by Mr. Blyth, and 

 to raise the number of actually known species to about GGO. Since the last sheet of this revised 

 list was in the hands of the printers, another large collection, made in the Tonghoo and Karen 



* [At the Ciucona plantations about IG miles cast of Tonghoo. — Ed.] 



