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Thatone, female, 6 ; Pahpoon, female, 7 ; Shymootee, female, 

 7 ; Tavoy, male, 7 ; Pahpoon, female, 7 ; Wimpong, male, 8; 

 Kollidoo, female, 7 ; Tavoy, male, 6 ; Pahpoon, female, 8 ; 

 Kohbaing-, mate, 7 ; Thatone, w?a/<?, 6 ; no white tip. Myawadee, 

 female, 6 ; Kaukaryit, female, 7 ; Myawadee, female, 6; Wim- 

 pong, male, 7 ; Amherst, male, 5 ; Tavoy, male, 7 ; Pahpoon, 

 female, 6 ; Pahpoon, female, 7 ; Amherst, male, 5 ; Theinzeik, 

 female, 7 ; Kollidoo, female, 7 ; Younzaleen creek, female, 7; 

 Tavoy, female, 7 ; Kollidoo, female, 7. 



Himalayas — 



TLoleguvh, female, 7 ; ~Dhurmsa\a,, female, 6 ; Mnssoorie, female, 

 8 ; Simla, male, 7 ; Petoragurh, Almorah, male, 7 ; Sikim, male, 

 7 ; Kotegurh, male, 6 ; no white tip to tail. Sikim, female, 8 ; 

 Hills north of Mussoorie, male, 8 ; Narkundah, male, 7 ; Kote.« 

 gurh, female, 7 ; Sikim, male, 7 ; Simla, male, 7 ; Darjeeling, 

 female, 7; Sikim, female, 7; Darjeeling, female, 6; Darjeeling, 

 male, 9 ; Kotegurh, male, 8 ; Kotegurh, male, 7 ; Kotegurh, male, 

 8 ; Mongphoo, male, 7 ; Mongphoo, female, 6 ; Kotegurh, male, 

 7 ; Kotegurh, female, 7 ; near Darjeeling, female, 7 ; Hills north 

 of Mussoorie, male, 7 ; near Darjeeling, female, 7 ; Kalsi 

 Dhoon, male, 7 ; Gurhwal, male, 7 ; Sikim ? 7. 



Mirzapore, male, 7. 



Cachar, ? 7.—? 7. 



Tipperah,/gma/<?, 6. 



Pegu and Arrakan — 



Arracan Hills, male, 7 ; Thayetmyo, female, 6 ; Thayetmyo, 

 male, 6; no white tips to tail. Rangoon, male, 7 . 



These have been carefully recorded by Davison and myself, 

 and in all abnormal cases the bars counted by both, in fact, 

 in the case of the bird with 9 bars (!), these have been counted 

 over and over again. 



After arriving at results like these, I myself am unable to 

 accept any species differing merely from cuculoides by the 

 points indicated by Mr. Blyth. 



80. — Glaucidium brodiei, Burton (6). 



Kyouk-nyat ; Mooleyit ; Amherst ; Meetamyo ; Tavoy. 



Confined to the better wooded tracts of the northern and 

 central portions of the province ; apparently rare, except about 

 Mooleyit. 



[I have seen this little Owlet on but few occasions. It occurs, 

 so far as I have observed, only in the northern and central por- 

 tions of the province, that is to say, from Tavoy northwards. 

 At Mooleyit one day I heard a Megalaima ramsayi making a 

 ' great outcry ; going to see what the matter was, I found one of 

 these Owlets, which I shot, with a half-fledged Barbet, firmly 



