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and have been procured by H., myself, or others on the Taungjah 
pass. 
Witness to this fact among birds, the black-and-red broad-bill 
(Cymborhynchus macrorhynchus), the tufted tree-swift (Macropteryx 
comatus), the greater red-billed malkoha (Rhamphococcyx eryihrog- 
nathus), and many others: among butterflies I have taken the 
eminently Malayan forms of Papilio butleri and Sithon nedymond, 
not to speak of scores of others: and in the Hymenoptera it is 
sufficient to mention as common Sphea tyrannica, Smith, originally 
recorded by Wallace from the Celebes ; Ctenoplectra chalybia, also 
from Malacca and the Celebes, Megachile atrata, from the Philippine 
Islands, etc. 
Years ago I was stationed at Kawkareik and knew the Taungjah pass 
and road well. My best collections of birds and insects were made 
along it and in the Thaungyin and Haungdraw valleys. Of late years 
however, only when professional work has taken me there, have I 
been able to revisit my old hunting grounds and collect during such 
leisure as the ever-increasing duties that press on one now-a-days have 
allowed me. Here is an account of one trip made along this road. 
Leaving Maulmain by launch one day early in February, H. and I 
got up to Kyundo, a little village on the bank of the Haungdraw 
river, on the same day, early enough to proceed on to Kawkareik, 
which is fifteen miles further in towards the foot of the hills. Leaving 
our servants to load and bring on our baggage on carts, we started on 
foot with a light empty cart and a fast pair of bullocks following close 
behind in case we found the sun hot and decided to ride. We both 
carried nets, and H., who had lately taken again to bird-collecting, 
had a man behind carrying a gun. 
The road for some miles from Kyundo is uninteresting, passing 
between low-lying marshy ground and paddy fields over which it is 
built with high embanked sides, pierced by bridges so as to allow of 
outlets for the water in the floods of the monsoon. At about the fifth 
mile, however, the road gets up among low forest-clad laterite hills, 
and here our collecting began, the first prize being a fine adult 
Poliornis teesa, an exceedingly rare bird in Tenasserim. H. spied it a 
little distance off the road, seated high upon a dead tree (Dipterocarpus 
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