THE IBIS. 



SEVENTH SERIES. 



No. IX. JANUARY 1897. 



I. — An additional List of Birds obtained at Kalaiv, Southei'n 

 Shan States, during April and May, 1896. By Major 

 G. RiPPON, 7th Burma Infantry. 



(Plate I.) 



During my second visit to Kalaw this year I did a good deal 

 of collecting, but succeeded in obtaining examples of only 

 34 species of birds in addition to those previously recorded 

 {' Ibis/ 1896, p. 357), making a total of 109 in all. I have 

 included in the present list only those birds which I or my 

 man actually shot and identified. A few obtained last year 

 I did not see again : for instance, Pica rustica and Lioptila 

 melanoleuca ; while, on the other hand, I obtained nearly all 

 those entered in the previous list as " observed by Mr. Gates," 

 As in my former paper, I have not recorded any species 

 procured below 4000 feet above the sea-level. 



Towards the end of May the number of young birds at 

 Kalaw is very great. They were frequently brought in as 

 new species by my collector. Among others, Dicrurus 

 cineraceiis breeds, there; young birds just able to fly from 

 tree to tree were brought to me. They were of a uniform 

 dark ashy blue. 



Mr. E. W. Gates has been kind enough to look over the 

 specimens I brought down and to settle son)e cases of 



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