_ COLLECTING WAYS AND COLLECTING DAYS. 357 
all rare birds, being very locally distributed and occurring only in 
“ Indaing,” the kind of forest we were passing through. 
The progress of our march to-day was much less interrupted by stop- 
pages to collect. The dry hot jungle we were passing through yielded 
few things beyond what are mentioned above, and these, though all good 
and rare, were limited in numbers. It was still early in the forenoon 
when we got into the belt of teak and bamboo close to Myawaddy, and 
here we found wood-peckers plentiful; several species were associated 
together, andin company with numbers of Garrulaw belangeri, G. mont 
liger, and G. pectoralis, and a few green jays (Cissa sinenses) were work- 
ing in regular mobs through the forest. Of wood-peckers, beside Gecenus 
erythropygius which we had already obtained, we got the large T'hripo- 
naz feddent, a handsome black and white species, with, in the male, a 
bright scarlet crest ; Blyth’s three-toed green wood-pecker (Gecinulus 
viridis), Chrysophlegma flavinucha, and C. chlorolophus, Chrysocolaptes 
strictus and Tiga javanensis with their shining golden backs, the quaint, 
familiarly-tame and compact-built Hemicercus canente, and the pretty 
little rufous piculet (Sasa ochracea). It wasa perfect paradise of wood- 
peckers, and Iam sure we could have, if we had liked, got over a hun- 
dred specimens in the two days we stopped at Myawaddy afterwards, 
Myawaddy must once have been a considerable town. The remains of 
huge earthwork fortifications lying half a mile or more on the west 
and south attest to its former extent and importance. At present 
it contains about a couple of hundred houses—most of them mere huts, 
the usual three or four pagodas, kyaungs (monasteries), woots (image- 
houses), and zayats (rest-houses). 
 Inone of these last we put up, and as it was getting on in the after- 
_ noon (our collecting just outside Myawaddy having delayed us consid- 
erably), we changed our clothes, scrambled through breakfast, and set 
to work to prepare and put away our collections. 
This ended our three days’ collecting for the time on the 
Kawkareik and Myawaddy road. 
