A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF PEGU. 203 
171.—Dissemurus paradiseus, Lin. (285.) 
In a foot note to an account of the nidification of the Great 
Racket-tailed Drongo which I wrote (S. F., VIII, p. 166), Mr. 
Hume asks whether paradiseus or grandis is meant. After 
shooting these birds for some years in all parts of Pegu, and 
examining specimens procured by my men in Tenasserim, I am 
now of the opinion that the two cannot be separated.* Upper 
Pegu birds are larger, and have more ample crests than those 
from Lower Pegu and Tenasserim; but no line can be drawn 
between the two, and the difficulty is best met by ranging them 
all in under one name. 
172.—Chibia hottentotta, Zin. (286.) 
This bird seems to wander about a good dealin flocks, and 
there are few places where it is not common at one time of the 
year or the other. 
173.—Artamus fuscus, Vieill. (287.) 
Generally distributed, and very common in many places, 
such as Thyetmyo, but apparently capricious in its choice of 
locality. In many tracts of country I have never met it. 
174.—Muscipeta affinis, 4. Hay. (289.) 
Fairly common in all parts of Pegu. In September 
Jarge numbers sweep through the province, apparently on 
migration. 
175.—Hypothymis azurea, Bodd. (290.) 
Excessively common everywhere. 
176.—Leucocerca albicollis, Viedil. (291.) 
Generally distributed, but nowhere common. 
177.—Leucocerca aureola, Vieill. (292.) 
Confined to the upper portions of the province near Thyet- 
myo and Tounghoo. I have never met with it elsewhere. 
* ‘he great mass of the birds from all over Pegu and Tenasserim are unquese 
tionably paradiseus. But true grandis is perfectly separable. Very likely Mr. Oates 
has never seen one in Burma. We have only two, one from the North Arakan hills, 
and one from the extreme north of Tenasserim. 
But from Thyetmyo in Pegu, we have two specimens, which might pass for grandis, 
but which, when closely examined, have smaller crests and smaller bills, though larger 
than those from Rangoon, &c. I agree therefore with Mr. Oates now, that it is best 
to keep all the Pegu birds as paradiseus. But if he means that true grandis is 
not separable from paradiseus, then I must differ from him—five birds in a hundred 
may be found intermediate between the two near the junctions of their respective 
areas I admit ; but how about keeping intermedia and pyrrhops separate when posi- 
tively fifty out of every hundred birds are intermediate between these two forms and 
both occur as a rule in the same areas? I may note that on the last line of p. 221, 
Vol. VI, Pegu has been printed for Arakan—Eb., S, F 
