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flava, about the occurrence of which there may be reasonable 
doubts.* 
281—Limonidromus indicus, Gm. (595.) 
Rather rare, but found in all parts of Pegu. 
282.—Pipastes maculatus, Hodgs. (596.) 
A very common winter species abounding in all parts of 
the province. 
283.—Pipastes trivialis, Zin. (597.) 
I have only met with this bird once on the Pegu hills 
(S. EF. IIT, p. 142.) 
284.—Corydalla richardi, Vieiil. (599.) 
Very abundant throughout Lower Pegu in paddy fields and 
short grass, in winter only. 
285.—Corydalla rufula, VieciZ. (600.) 
Also very abundant in Lower Pegu throughout the year. 
I do not remember to have met with it in the north. 
286.—Anthus cervinus, Pull. (605 dis.) 
An abundant cold weather visitor throughout the vast 
plains of Lower Pegu. 
287.—Herpornis xantholeucus, Hodgs. (630.) 
Appears to be generally distributed. I met with it on the 
hills between Tounghoo and Thyetmyo, and also on some low 
spurs some few miles from Pegu. 
288.—Zosterops palpebrosa, Zem. (631.) 
A comparatively rare species. I have procured a few speci- 
mens at Kyeikpadein, and Captain Feilden gotit at Thyetmyo. 
* Add 592 ¢er.—Budytes beema, Sykes. 
The oriental form of Budytes flavus, Lin., certainly occurs in Pegu; not only 
did Dr. Armstrong bring me two specimens which I identified for him, but I have 
another specimen from ‘12 miles north of Rangoon,” and one from the Bassein 
river. Considering that at page 297 Dr. Armstrong expressly says that I iden- 
tified all his specimens for him, and that only a tyro could possibly make a 
mistake between flavus and cinereocapillus, I cannot think Mr, Oates justified 
in omitting this species, simply because he never happened to meet with it. Dr. 
Armstrong himself of course did not in those days know one bird from another; he 
was only commencing, he happened to shoot two flavus, and for all I know may have 
observed numbers of cinereccapillus, and thought them the same, and so concluded 
that flavus was very common. I should say, seeing how few specimens of this, and 
how many of the former, we have from Pegu, that flavus, 7.e., beema, was rare, 
and cinereocapillus common, In Northern Tenasserim beema is still rarer. I have 
only one specimen from north of Moulmein, and Davison never met with it north 
of this. But surely this is no valid reason for excluding a bird, the occurence 
ef which has been duly recorded by a reliable collector, all of whose specimens 
have been carefully identified by a competent ornithologist.—Ep., S. F, 
