1875.] OX BIEDS FEOM BUEMA. 419 



in Maunbhoom, it has been found in the Andaman?, in Tenasserim, in the Bhootan Dears, the 

 Eajmahal hills in Tipperah, in Cuttack, and in Siam. 



On a former occasion (Ann. N. H. (4) x, p. 61 *) I ventured to assert that certain Javan birds 

 reappeared in Burma, some penetrating so far as Nepal, although they were not known to 

 inhabit Malacca or Sumatra. The want of an authentic record of all the Malaccan and 

 Sumatran birds prevents me from advancing this assertion as a demonstrated fact. Nor am I 

 able to state at what part or parts of the Malaccan peninsula these Javan forms severally 

 reappear. But in order that the assertion may be tested by others more familiar with Indian 

 and Indo-Malayan birds, the subjoined lists have been prepared of the principal Javan genera and 

 Javan species which, while occurring in Burma, and in some instances in regions to the west or 

 east of that country, are not known to me as inhabitants of either Malacca or Sumatra. 



Even should these lists stand the test of a rigid scrutiny, they are not offered as part of the 

 basis of any zoo-geographical theory, but are merely intended as a small contribution to our 

 knowledge of distribution. The presence or absence of certain Sumatran or Malaccan birds in 

 Burma present equally perplexing phenomena ; while, again, some Javan species are common to 

 Java, Malacca, and Burma. 



List of the Javan s-enera not known to occur in Malacca and Sumatra, but found in Burma : — 



t)"- 



^Bracliypteryx. Mz/iojihonus. Sturnopastor. 



Analcifus. Blmncja. Crypsirhina. 



Cochoa. ■ DendropMla. Pavo. 



To these may perhaps be added 



Zoothera. Pterythrius. Allotrius. 



List of Javan species not known to occur in Malacca or in Sumatra, but found in Burma : — Ibis, 1875, 



/ • r \ p. 403. 



Bittastur liventer. Buchanga intermedia (rejiresentative form). 



Pendrotypes analis. Buchanga atra (representative form). 



Ilenicurus leschenaulti {fide Hume). ^Macropiygia leptogrammica. 



%Pendrop1iila frontalis. Ilarpactcs orescius. 



Timelia lengalensis (representative form). § Crypsirhina varians. 



Megalurus palustris. ^Bhringa remifer. 



Hyloterpe grisola. Pavo muticus. 



Besides the many Himalayan forms already noted, which Lieutenant W. Eamsay had 

 enabled me to add to the list of Burmese birds, are several which have hitherto been ranked as 

 peculiarly belonging to China or else Siam. Such, for instance, are Gecinus erythropygius, 

 yEthopyga dabrii, Pycnonotus atricapillus, Acridotheres siamensis, and Parus commixtus. 



* [AnteA, p. 217.— Ed.] 



t [All the undermentioned genera except Pavo, Zoothera, and Allotrius have since been obtained in Sumatra, and 

 Brachypteryx and DendropMla at Malacca. — Ed.] 



X [Since found in Malacca. — Ed.] § [Since found in Sumatra. — Ed.] 



