108 . T. Bingham & H. N. Thompson— .Birds collected and [No. 2, 



elevations. It goes about in small flocks, and Las a loud clear whistling 

 call, which however is not kept up so long or so monotonously as that 

 of Lioptila melanoleuca. It extends to the east to the Mekong -Sal ween 

 watershed, a few miles west of the town of Kengtung. (H.N.T.). 



30 (206). Lioptila melanoleuca, (Tick.), Blyth. 

 Faun. Brit, hid., Birds, I, "p. 198. 



31 (207). Liopt?la castanoptera, Salvadori. 

 Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, I, p. 199. 



The distribution of these two species is rather remarkable. After 

 leaving the station at Thazi on the Burma Railway and proceeding by 

 road to Taunggyi and Fort Stedman, the large civil and military 

 stations in the Southern Shan States, the first Lioptila met with is 

 L. castanoptera, which is common and the only species of the genus 

 I found at, Kalaw 4400 ft. It no doubt extends along the range of hills 

 bordering the western side of: the Myealat plateau to Karenni, from 

 whence it was first sent by Signor Fea. This species so far as my 

 observations go does not extend to the east of Kalaw, as on the range of 

 hills including Taunggyi and extending to the south to Fort Stedman 

 find northwards towards the hills in the Mong Kong State including 

 Loi-San-Pa I only found L. melanoleuca. At the same time it has 

 to be noted that Oates (Joe. cit.) records having examined a specimen of 

 L. castanoptera which was obtained at Fort Stedman,* where during 

 several days collecting I only saw and procured L. melanoleuca, and 

 Mr. Thompson informs me that both species occur to the east on the 

 Salween-Mekong watershed. 



32 (208). Lioptila annectens, Blyth. 

 Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, I, p. 199. 



Common on Loi-San-Pa at 6000 ft. and upwards. A restless bird, 

 always on the move, whistling as it twines in and out among the twigs 

 and leaves. 



33 (212). ACTINODURA RAMSAYI, Willd. 



Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, I, p. 202. 



Loi-San-Pa 4000 to 7000 ft. A decidedly rare bird in these States. 

 It has a weird cry, which it monotonously repeated for two or three 

 hours at a time from the topmost branch of a tree. (H.N.T.). 



# Query. Was this specimen procured in the hills to the West of the Fort 

 Stedman lake ? If so the Kalaw hills run out in that direction. 



