1875.] ON BIEDS FEOM BTJEMA. 417 



hills by Lieutenant W. Ramsay, has reached me, containing some more species new to Burma. 

 Upon these I desire to offer a few remarks. 



In the Karen hills Lieutenant W. Eamsay had already discovered a number of Himalayan 

 forms, such as Batrachostomus hodcjsoni, two species of the genus Nlltava, Neornis assimilis, a 

 new species of Actinnra, Sihia picaoides, Cutia nipalensis, a species of Lioptila^ several species 

 of Liothrix and aihned genera, also of Stachyrhis, Orthotomus coronatus, two species of Para- 

 doxornis, and Samglossa spiloptera. He has also discovered the following species: — 



Macroptgia leptogeammica (Temm.)=Jf. tusalia (Hodgson). 



One example was obtained on the Karen hills at 4000 feet elevation; another on the 

 Tonghoo mountains* at 3500 feet. These and Himalayan individuals ( cf ) are certainly not 

 separable from the Javan ( d ) form. With Javan female birds I have not been able to institute 

 a comparison. Professor Schlegel seems, on the other hand, not to have had Himalayan females 

 to compare with Javan (Mus. Pays-Bas, Columbce, p. 108). 



DucuLA griseicapilla, nobis, Ann. & M. N. H. (4) vol. xvi. p. 228 (Sept. 1, 1875)f, 

 is a species distinct from, though nearly allied to, D. insigms and D. badia, discovered on the 

 Karen hills at an elevation of from 4000 to 4200 feet. The distinctive character of the 

 Tenasserim bird was mentioned by Mr, Blyth (J. A. S. B. xxviii. p. 41G) ; but he does not 

 appear to have ever named the species. 



Aeborophil,\ brunneipectus (Blyth). 



Several examples of this Wood-Partridge have been recently obtained by Lieutenant W. Ibis, 1875, 

 Ramsay in the Karen hills at 4000 feet elevation. It has also been found by that gentleman P" ■**^'^" 

 and by Mr. Oatcs in the Tonghoo hills J. An interesting note relating to it by the latter 

 naturalist will be found in ' Stray Feathers' (iii. p. 174). In some examples the feathers on the 

 upper part of the breast are crossed by two conspicuous narrow black bands, or by one broad 

 one. In others the breast-plumage appears of a uniform tawny rufous; but when the feathers 

 are pushed aside, many of them will be found to be broadly marked with dark brown. 



Gampsorhtjn'chus eufulus. 



Adult males of this species, obtained by Lieutenant W. Ramsay on the Tonghoo hills, in 

 no respect differ from Darjeeling birds and others from the Garo hills &c. But some female 

 examples he obtained in the Karen hills exhibit a mixture of brown and white feathers on 

 the nape, suggesting apparently a state of transition from the young to the adult plumage. 

 One of these has also a narrow rufous collar, which separates the white throat from the tawny 

 breast-plumage. In another this collar is merely indicated at the sides of the neck, the white 

 gular plumage being continuous with that of the breast, which is white. On examples in this 

 state of plumage G. torqiiatiis, Hume (Str. Feath. ii. p. 446), appears to have been founded. 



* [At Laik-tlio.— Ed.] t \_Antca, p. 416.— Ed.] + [Pegu Toma hills.— Ed.] 



