JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL, 



Vol. L.XXI. Part II. — NATURAL SCIENCE. 

 No. III.— 1902. 



X. — On a collection of Birds from Upper Burmah. — By Lieut. H. Wood. 

 R.E., and F. Finn, B.A., F.Z.S., Deputy Superintendent of the 

 Indian Museum . 



(With Plate VII.) 



[Received 30th April. Read 7th May, 1902.] 



In the following paper Lieut. Wood is responsible for the general 

 introduction and remarks on localities where the birds were collect- 

 ed ; while the birds have been identified and annotated at the Indian 

 Museum by the Deputy Superintendent. Almost all of the specimens 

 have been generously presented to that institution by Lieut. Wood, 

 and the accession is a particularly welcome one, as several rare species 

 are represented, such as Trochalopterum erythrolaema. 



The collection is also noteworthy as containing examples of two 

 species new to the Indian fauna, Pere David's Babbler (Babax lanceolatus) 

 and the Marsh Tit (Paries palustris). It has been deemed worth while 

 to have these figured, on account of their interest from a distributipnaL ADV - 

 point of view. (See Plate VII). mpw \CtQ\C 



The collection was made in that part of Burmah wn iftb* T i? ■*],/-• » i 

 bounded on the west by the high range which divides the P a *^ta»nt:r< 

 and Minbu districts from the Chin Hills, and on the east by a parallel 

 range which runs more or less due north and south, distant about 30 

 miles, and known locally under different names as the Pontaung 

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