A SECOND LIST OF THE BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 317 



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From November last year to the end of March my estab- 

 lishment have been working under Mr. Davison in the 

 southern portion of the Tenasserim provinces. 



I do not think it necessary to furnish a map of the area 

 worked, as this is comparatively small and may be at once 

 defined as a somewhat triangular tract, bounded on the north 

 by an imaginary line drawn east and west through the province, 

 a little north of Mergui, east by the hills dividing Tenasserim 

 from Siam, west by the sea, and on the south by the Pakchan 

 Estuary which forms the southern boundary alike of the 

 province and of the British Empire in this Peninsular. 



But though the area explored was small, and the time occu- 

 pied limited, the results have been sufficiently important to 

 require early record. 



To my list of the Tenasserim ornis, already published, and 

 which included 431 species, 79 have been added, raising the 

 total to 510 and of the species included in my former list on 

 the authority off others, but not at that time obtained by us, 

 28 have now been secured. 



Of the 79 species now added to our list, few are new to science, 

 but amongst these latter are to be numbered one of the loveliest 

 of that most beautiful group, the Pittidce and a most remarkable 

 Ibis. 



The rest are mostly birds already known to occur at Malacca, 

 and are important as proving the extension northwards of the 

 purely Malayan fauna as far at any rate as Mergui, while 

 some (e.g. Berenicornis comatus) have hitherto apparently only 

 been recorded from Sumatra or other Islands of the Archi- 

 pelago. 



Another year at least will be occupied in completing our 

 preliminary exploration of the province exclusive of the Mergui 

 Archipelago, but as soon as the work is finished I shall endea- 

 vour to present our readers with a complete list of the Avifauna 

 of Tenasserim, with some account of the physical features of 

 the province, the relations of its ornis to those of surrounding 

 regions, and full descriptions and measurements of all species 

 not included in Jerdon's Birds of India. 



For the present I must content myself with the two follow- 

 ing lists, and with a very few supplementary remarks. 



Before proceeding further I desire to record the great obliga- 

 tions I am under to Count Salvadori, without the aid of 

 whose invaluable work on the Birds of Borneo I should never 



* For the first list see Vol. II., p. 467, et. seq. 

 f Printed in italics. 



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