668 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXI. 



D. L. KEDDIE. 



MoNG Pai, Papun, Burma, 

 ^th September 1911. 



No. XXni.— NOTES ON SOME OF THE BIRD LIFE AT 

 THANDOUNG. 



The small hill-station of Thandoung has only lately come to the fore as 

 a sanitorium for Europeans. It is situated on the Karen Hill, 28 miles east 

 of Tounghoo, the elevation being about 4,000 feet. The country is very 

 hilly and densely wooded, making it a difficult matter to collect bird 

 specimens, but from an ornithological point of view it is very interesting, 

 bird-life being plentiful and varied, notwithstanding the fact that running 

 water is scarce in the neighbourhood, probably due to the great deforesta- 

 tion by Taung-yah cutters in former years, very little of the virgin forest 

 being left. 



Within recent years the Forest Department have put a large area under 

 reservation, the immediate consequence being that a dense secondary growth 

 chiefly consisting of a thin spikeless variety of bamboo, has sprung up. 



