392 Messrs. llobinson and Kloss on Birds [Ibis, 



and on the Continent for the study of local movement, not 

 to mention that most valuable of all schemes — the " ringing " 

 of birds, — will go far to building up an edifice grounded on 

 solid facts^ whose completion we must leave to future gene- 

 rations of enthusiasts. 



Finally, it must be clear to any reader of this rather frag- 

 mentary paper that no exhaustive or complete study of tiie 

 subject has been attempted. Many points connected with 

 the relation between distribution and migration have been 

 merely suggested, in the hopes that such preliminary mention 

 will stimulate ideas on this, the most attractive phase of an 

 absorbing science. 



XXII. — On Birds from South Annum and Cochin China. 

 Part I. Phasianid^ — Campophagid^. By Herbert C. 

 Robinson, M.B.O.U., and C. Boden Kloss, M.B.O.U. 



(Plates VII.-XI. & Text-figure 3.) 



Narrative of the Journey. 

 By C. Boden Kloss. 



It is now several years ago since I determined some day to 

 pay a visit to the Langbian region in French Indo-China, 

 partly because it is evidently a most attractive country, 

 little known to English travellers, and partly because there 

 is to be found there that mouutain-areaj still zoologically 

 unexplored, which is most remote from the fairly well- 

 known upland regions of Burma and Yunnan. 1 hoped, as 

 the few specimens secured by Mrs. Vassal seemed to indicate 

 and as has proved to be the case, that a rich harvest of 

 novelties would be obtained by the first serious zoological 

 explorer. Early in 1918 my opportunity came with three 

 months' local leave. 



The Langbian Plateau (text-figure 3) is situated in 

 southern Annam, and Dalat, the little settlement at its 

 southern side, is about 45 miles distant from Phanrang, a 

 coast town of some local importance inlat. 11° 35' N., 51° W. 



