Recently published Ornithological Works. 119 



collecting-grounds have been Malewoon, near the eastern ex- 

 tremity of Tenasserim, in Pegu near Rangoon and near Tong- 

 hoo, and in Karennee. Of these three series, that of Karennee 

 is by far the largest and most important, and the account of 

 it occupies the greater part of Count Salvador's memoir. 

 Karennee, as will be seen on looking at the map in Mr. Oates's 

 ' Handbook to the Birds of British Burmah/ lies between the 

 north-eastern corner of Pegu and the river Salween, and is 

 hitherto chiefly known to us ornithologically from Mr. Ward- 

 law Ramsay's explorations*. Sig. Fea claims to have pene- 

 trated into its unknown recesses further than any other 

 explorerf. During his two journeys into the Karennee 

 mountains in 1887 and 1888 he accumulated 467 specimens 

 of birds, which are referred by Count Salvador! to 165 species. 

 Of these the greater number are also found in the higher 

 districts of Tenasserim, and have been already noted as met 

 with in Karennee by Mr. Wardlaw Ramsay. But Sig. Fea's 

 investigations have added, about 60 species to this avifauna. 

 Of these 60 three have been described as new in a previous 

 paper (see above, p. 118), and five others are now characterized 

 under the names Cypselus minusculus, Cyornis dialiltsma, 

 Zosterops mesoxantha, Pomatorhinus imberbis, and Merula 

 subobscura. Moreover five other species of which specimens 

 were obtained by Sig. Fea are new to the Burmese list, 

 though known from adjoining countries. 



While we heartily congratulate Sig. Fea on his brilliant 

 discoveries in this and other branches of zoology, and agree 

 to the truth of the proverb " Philosophus non habet patriam," 

 we cannot help remarking that it is not creditable, either to 

 our own government or to Englishmen generally, to leave 

 the exploration of British India to be undertaken by natu- 

 ralists of other nations. 



* Cf. Ibis, 1875, p. 348, and other papers by the same author and by 

 Lord Tweeddale. 



t Cf. Boletiuo d. Soc. Geagr. Ital. 1888, p. 854. 



