iv A REVISED LIST OF THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



I have entered each species under the name, which, so far 

 as my present information goes, is that which, according to 

 the British Association Code, it should hear. I have not yet 

 half worked out the synonymy of this large body of species, 

 and I do not doubt that a great number of errors will be 

 found to exist in the nomenclature. 



I have added some few synonyms and references which may 

 be useful to my Indian readers, if they chance to meet with 

 other books dealing with the same species. 



Immediately, after the name of each species, I have added 

 in brackets the number* of specimens (excluding some few 

 given away) which we have procured of this species within the 

 province. This will, to a certain extent, serve as a guide as to the 

 comparative rarity or otherwise of the species in those portions 

 of the province as yet explored by us, and will also indicate 

 those species of which we most require additional specimens. 



Then I have given, in small type, a complete list of all the 

 localities arranged in order from north to south, at which the 

 specimens obtained by us were procured. I have been unable 

 to prepare a map showing all these localities, for the simple 

 reason that not half of them occur on any existing map (the 

 province is as yet unsurveyed), and of those that doubtless must 

 be in the maps, not one-half can be recognized in the peculiar 

 spelling adopted by geographers for Burmese names. 



But though I have been foiled in furnishing a map, I have added 

 (see Appendix II) an alphabetical list of all places from which 

 Davison has procured any specimens, with an explanation of 

 position and distance of each in regard to and from some really 

 well-known place that is to be found in every map, as also, so 

 far as it is known, the elevation above the sea-level of all places 

 in the hills. 



Further, 1 have added in italics and in brackets other local- 

 ities from which we know that' others (whose names are also 

 given) have of recent years obtained the species, and I have 

 been particularly careful to do this in the case of specimens 

 collected by Major Lloyd and Lieutenant W. Ramsay in 

 Tonghoo, Karendoo (or the Karen hills) and Karennee, as we 

 have as yet no specimens thence. 



To this follows as concise a resume as possible of all I have 

 been able to learn of the general distribution of the species 

 within the province. 



This will doubtless prove in many cases sadly incorrect, but 

 it will show every one where they can put us right, and with 

 the list of localities will enable them at once to see whether 



* Excludes the 600 odd specimens collected in Tavoy subsequent to the " revised 

 list" being printed off. 



