Introduction. 



appear to stand in the same category as 

 the Kachin tracts in the extreme north 

 of Burma, above Myitkyina. The limits 

 of Burma, east of Bhamo, and of the 

 northern Shan States are not yet properly 

 defined and mapped out, and in the case 

 of one or two birds which have been 

 found in this debatable land, I have 

 thought it preferable to include, rather 

 than to exclude, them. By bringing them 

 to notice, we may hope that sportsmen 

 will direct their energies to the acquisition 

 of specimens of these rare species. 



On the other hand, while quite willing 

 to give any species the benefit of a 

 doubt, I am unable to include in my 

 list two species noticed by Messrs. Hume 

 and Marshall, which there is no reason 

 to believe have ever occurred within 

 Indian limits. 



Of the eighty-eight species included in 

 my list, forty are in Dr. Jerdon's work 

 and seventy-six in that of Messrs. Hume 

 and Marshall. Of the twelve species not 

 treated of by the latter authors, eight are 

 species discovered and named after the 

 issue of their work; three are additions 

 to the Indian fauna from surrounding 

 countries ; and one is a species of which 

 they were in doubt at the time they 



