1919-] j'l'oni South Annain and Cochin China. 4-03 



TiKAUT; G. — Les Oiseaux de la Biisse Cocliiii-Chiiie. Bull. 



(lu Coniite agricole et iiidustriel de la Cocliin-Cliine, i. 



no. 1, 1879. 

 OusTALET, E. el Menkgaux, a.— Catalogue des Oiseaux de la 



Basse Cocliin-Chiue. Bull. Soc. Nat. d^Aeclim. France, 



1905, pp. 169-181- ; 1907, pp. 4:3-51, 83-86, 148-154. 



The [)i'eseiit coUet^tion shows that our knowledge of the 

 birds of Indo-China has been, and is certainly still, far from 

 complete, and we have theiel'ore attempted no analysis ot" 

 the avifauna of the region. 



The great majority of those species which are not typically 

 Indo-Chinese (i. e. whose tru(! liome is east of the Brahma- 

 })ntra) are distinctly Himalayan. The occurrence of such 

 Malayan species as Cyunops ourti is rather a surprise, but in 

 the lowlands certain .Malayan birds appear to attain the 

 known limit of their range. We might have expected some 

 of the more typical Chinese forms to have occurred in the 

 Langbian Highlands, but such does not appear to be 

 the case. 



List of Species obtained. 



1. Arboricola rufogularis annamensis, subsp. no\. (Pi. X.) 

 Most nearly allied to A. r. rufogularis Blyth ^, from 

 Burma and Tenasserim (type from lower Sikkim), but with 

 the crown almost uniform dark olive-brown, the feathers 

 only very obscurely and narrowly edged with black. Rufous 

 of the chin and upper throat succeeded by a pure white 

 band with narrow black tips to the feathers ; this band again 

 separated from the grey of the upper breast by a narrow 

 black band formed by a broad median black bar to the 

 feathers. 



Forehead dark grey, lores almost blackish ; a narrow grey 

 superciliary strii)e with black shaft-stripes to the feathers, 

 broadening and becoming paler on the nape ; a narrow 

 white stripe from the nostril to the ear-coverts, the feathers 

 beneath the eye with black tips ; ear-coverts ashy brown 

 bordered above with a blackish line, lower cheeks and a 

 * Journ. Askt. Soc. Bengal, xviii. 1849, p. S19. 



