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get all the specimens we had procured on the march prepared and 
put away, and then a bird or two had to be left over to be skinned 
the next day. f 
The third day’s march brought us to Myawaddy on the bank of the 
Thaungyin river. The country between our camp at Thinganyinaung 
at the east foot of the Dawnat range and Myawaddy was quite 
different in character from anything we had passed over yet. The road 
wound over a series of low hillocks with gravelly sandy soil, parched 
and dry and covered with what the Burmans call “Indaing’’ jungle, 
in which the chief trees are In (Dipterocarpus tuberculatus), Engyin 
(Pentacme stamensis), Theya (Shorea obtusa), Yindike (Dalbergia 
culirata), Kone pyinma (Lagerstremia macrocarpa), Bamhué (Careya 
arborea), and Khabaung (Strychnos nua-vomica), with here and there a 
clump of Myinwa (Dendrocalamus strictus), and a sparse undergrowth 
of coarse thekké grass. 
Just after striking and leaving camp, passing over some paddy fields, 
we manage to secure a magnificent specimen of Rutherford’s crested 
serpent-eagle (Spilornis rutherfordi), and further on, on the bank of a 
tiny stream, the last water we should meet till we got close to Myawaddy, 
IT had a busy five minutes with my net procuring specimens of 
Euripus halitherses with its queer indented wings and prominent yellow 
eyes ; of Apatura parysatis, a little velvetty-black butterfly allied to the 
European purple emperor ; of Cyaniris, Castalins, and Rapala ; and a 
great prize, Thaduka multicandata, a remarkable form among the 
Lycenide, possessing three tails on the hind wing, and having the under- 
side of the wings curiously mottled. Among the bees and wasps I took 
a fine specimen of Vespa magnijica, a species which is not often found at 
such a low elevation, and a few Megachile momia and sylocapa, 
While I was at work with my net, H. went on, and I heard him fire 
twice ; when I came up I found him placing a pair of that beautiful 
little faleonet (Poliohierax insignis) on the bird-stick. Soon after this 
we got into a flock of the white-cheeked jay (Garrulus lencotis), and on 
a dead yindike tree (Dalbergia cultrata) I shot a specimen of that 
lovely wood-pecker (Gecinus erythropygius). The call of this last bird 
is a strange one for a wood-pecker, a sort of garrulous “ quitch-quatch, 
quitch-quatch,” quite unlike the shrill ringing ery of the other Gecini. 
Poliohicrax insignis, Garrulus lencotis, and Gecinus erythropygius are 
