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the blame — her shoulders are broad enough and she recks little 

 of the feeble words of us mortals. 



It is a most remarkable fact that the Avifauna of the Central 

 Tenasserim Hills is specialized to a high degree. 



The question has not beeu half worked out yet, and still 

 see what a list we already have of Tenasserim local representa- 

 tive forms : — 



Himalayan. 



Palseornis schisticeps. 



Picus Macei. 



Yungipicus pygrnaeus. 



Gecinus striolatus. 



G-ecimilus Grantia. 



Megalaiina asiatica. 



Megalairna Fraukliuii. 



Arachnothera magna. 



iEthopyga seherire, (miles). 



iEthopyga saturata. 



Sitta cinnaniorneiventris. 



Anthipes moniliger. 



Myiophoneus Temmincki. 



Hydrornis nipalensis. 



Alcippe nipalensis. 



Stachyris ruficeps. 



Stachyris cbrysea. 



Pellorneum nipalensis (Mandellii.) 



Poinatorhinus lencogaster. 

 Garrulax leucolophus. 

 Trochalopteron chrysopterum , 

 Achnodura Egertoni. 

 Sibia capistrata. 

 Hypsipetes psaroidea. 

 Hemixus flavala. 



Hypsipetes McClellandi. 



Criniger flaveolus. 



Oriolus indicus. 



Cryptoloplia Burkii. 



Pteruthius erythropterus. 



Allotrius melanotis. 



Leioptila annectans. 



Siva strigida. 



Siva cyanouroptera. 



fMinla rufogularis (collaris, Wald). 



Ixulus rufiennis, Hume [striates apud 



Auct) 

 Garrulus bispecularis. 

 Urocissa occipitalis. 

 Carpophaga insignis. 



Tenasserim. 



Palseornis Finscbi, Hume. 

 Picus ati"atus, Blyth. 

 Yungipicus canicapillus, Blyth. 

 Gecinus vittatus, Vieill. 

 Gecinulus viridis, Blyth. 

 Megalaiina Davisoni, Hume. 

 Megalairna Ramsayi, Walden. 

 Aracbnotbera aurata, Blyth. 

 iEthopyga cara, Hume 

 iEthopyga sanguinipectus, Wald. 

 Sitta neglecta, Walden. 

 Anthipes subnioniliger, Hume. 

 Myiophoneus Eugenei,* Hume. 

 Hydromis Oatesi, Hume. 

 Alcippe Pbayrei, Blyth. 

 Stachyris rufifrons Hume. 

 Stachyris assimilis, Walton. 

 Pellornemn minor, Hume ; (?) suboclmt" 



ceum> Sivinh. 

 Pomatorhinus olivaceus, Blyth. 

 Garrulax Belangeri, Less. 

 Trochalopteron nielanostigma, Blyth. 

 Actinodura Kamsayi, Wald. 

 Sibia melanoleuca, Tickell. 

 Hypsipetes subniger, Hume. 

 Hemixus Hildebrandi, Hume. 

 Hemixus Davisoni, Hume. 

 Hypsipetes Tickelli, Blyth. 

 Criniger griseiceps, Hume 

 Oriolus tenuirostris. Blyth. 

 Cryptolopha tephrocephala, Anderson. 

 Pteruthius seralatus, Tick. 

 Allotrius intermedius. Hume. 

 Leioptila Davisoni, Hume. 

 Siva castanicauda, Hume. 

 Siva sordida, Hume. 

 Minla dubius, Hume. 

 Ixulus striatus, Blyth. 

 Ixulus humilis, Hume 

 Garrulus leucotis, Hume. 

 Urocissa inagnirostris, Blyth. 

 Carpopbaga griseicapilla,J Walden. 



and I dare say others that do not at the moment occur to me. 



* No one who possesses a good series of this and the Himalayan species, can deny 

 the distinctness of the two. The largpr size, the entire absence of spots on the wings 

 and the differently colored bill render Eugenei, conspicuously different. — Ed., S, F. 



f Both would, I think, stand better as " Schoeniparus." — Ed., S. F. 



j Blyth discriminated this form, J. A. S., B., XVIII., 416, 1859, but did not best<>~r 

 any specific appellation on it. I followed him and abstained, as I now see wrongly from 



