Viii A REVISED LIST OF THE BIRDS OP TENASSERIM. 



long ago (S. F., III., 10), the real total will not, I apprehend, be 

 ultimately found to fall short of 1,000 species. 



In conclusion, I would urge that, imperfect as this account is, 

 I have really (as I have above endeavoured to show) tried my 

 best to make it as useful and complete as was possible with the 

 defective materials'* and the scanty leisure at my command. 



case (a few are doubtful) good reasons for believing to cccur in Burmah, or which are 

 represented there by nearly allied species, not discriminated when Blyth wrote and 

 not included in the list. Our present total of 71 shows ail advance of nearly 200 

 species. 



* Subsequent to the entire revised list (which has been some seven months in type) 

 being printed off, and to the whole of this introduction being in type, some 600 odd 

 specimens, collected chiefly about the base of Nwalabo in the Tavoy district, have 

 been received. These show how impossible it is at present to generalize safely as to 

 distribution; many species have turned up at Nwalabo that have not hitherto 

 been observed so far north or south, as the case may be, by, in some instances, a 

 hundred miles or so ; some of the more important points suggested by this collection 

 are noticed in Appendix I, Addenda et Corrigenda. 



