194 Correspondence. m [No. 2, 



" Of the upper dry region, the most characteristic animal is perhaps 

 a ground Thrush {Gliatarrlicea gularis, Blyth). I have never met 

 with this "bird below Prome ; nor have I ever seen it in thick or high 

 jungle. It is entirely an inhabitant of bushes. It is common at 

 Thayet Myo ; and higher up, about Yenan-phyoung and Pugan, it far 

 exceeds any other bird in its numbers. Your Lepus pegtiensis is also, 

 so far as I know, confined to this dry region ;* as are also the few 

 Jackals which occur in Burma. I have not heard of them, however, 

 above the frontier ; but suspect they will he found there, as well as at 

 Meaday and Prome. 



" Dr. Jerdon's new species of Magpie (Crypsirina cucullata), and 

 his new Pericrocotus,f and probably his new Mamas,! are other 

 species peculiar to the dry region ; none of them appearing to occur 

 below : your TJrocissa magnirostris I met with, near the base of the 

 Arakan hills, as far south as the neighbourhood of Gnathem-phyoung, 

 hut no further. 



" Of the damper climate of Lower Pegu, one of the most tj^pical 

 birds, so far at least as abundance is concerned, is the large Buceros 

 plicatus (your riijicollis, the species with deep notches on the sides 

 of the bill,) of Arakan. § Sciurus Keraudrenii I have seen near 

 Myansoing ; but it is far more common to the south ; where, also, a 

 peculiar variety of 8c. bicolor, with a light patch or band on the 

 back, is tolerably abundant. If 8c. bicolor exists in Upper Burma, it 

 must be excessively scarce. |[ 8c. assamensis (?) is common through- 

 out the Bassein district ; and another species (8c. — r) i s sa id to occur 

 above ; but of this I am far from certain. 



* I was assured of the existence of Hares on the left bank of the Salween, above 

 the junction of the Yunzalin river. — Cur. As. Soc. 



f P. albifrons, Jerdon, Ibis, 1860. 



J Major Tiekell called my attention to a white-headed Maina, which, he re- 

 marked, he had only seen about Rangoon, where I sought for it in vain. It 

 is doubtless the Temenuchus burmesianus, Jerdon (loc. cit.), obtained by him at 

 Thayet Myo, and by Mr. Blanford in various parts of Upper Burma. I observ- 

 ed, however, in Col. Pliayre's compound in Rangoon, a flock of the beautiful 

 Ploceus hypoxanthus, (Daudin) ; Dr, Jerdon obtained this bird at Thayet Mvo • 

 and Sir R. H. Schomburgk in Siam (P. Z. S. 1859, p. 151) : it havino pre- 

 viously been only known from Java and other islands of the great Eastern 

 archipelago. — Cur. As. Soc. 



§ The most characteristic bird of the Martaban and Tenasserim jungles is 

 certainly Garrulax Belangeri, at all elevations. The Shama (Kittacmcla nia- 

 cro-ura) is also very abundant. — Cur. As. Soc'. 



|| It is not likely to occur in Upper Burma, to judge from the analogy of 8c 

 purpureus of Central India, the range of which does not extend to Upper Hin- 

 dustan. — Cur. As. Soc. LS 



