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identical: though I have my doubts, and I have found several 
specimens, obtained by the late Major Berdmore at Schwe Gyen. 
AVES. 
Terax EvTOLMOs, Hodgson. From Shan hills E. of Ava. “Said 
to live on beetles. In the Southern Tenasserim Provinces, the I. 
FRINGILLARIUS, (Drapiez), begins to appear, andis the only species 
which I have seen from the Malayan peninsula. In fine specimens 
of this, the whole abdominal region is deep ferruginous, contrasting 
with a white breast (in general tinged a little with ferruginous) ; but 
the flanks and tibial plumes are always deep black. I. EUTOLMOS is 
the species which approaches nearest to Edwards’s figure and deserip- 
tion of I. BENGALENSIS, (L.) ; but is conspicuously distinguished by 
its broad white band across the nape, continuous with the broad 
white supercilia, also by its deep ferruginous throat and tzdzal plumes ; 
but what appear to be the young have rufous forehead and supercilia, 
and a white throat. I. BENGALENSIS is a race which still remains 
to be verified. I. MELANOLEUCOS, nobis, has no ferruginous colour- 
ing whatever, and pure white tibial plumes; being also rather larger 
than the others. The Society’s only specimen was received alive 
from Asam ; and another is noted in the Catalogue of the India-house 
Museum, the habitat of which is unknown. 
_ Bucrros cavatus, L. Head from Ava. 
B. atgrrostris, Shaw. “ From Shan hills. The same species is 
common along the base of the Arakan hills in Pegu. I have not 
met with it on the alluvium.” It seems to be common throughout 
Burma, and in the forests of Upper Martaban, together with the 
preceding. It is not generally known that the Hornbills are capital 
eating, as I can testify from experience. 
CeRYLE RuDIS, (L.) “ More common above Ava than in Pegu.” 
ALEEDO MENINGTING, Horsf. (A. asiatiea, Swainson) “ Replaces 
on the sea-coast the A. BENGALENSIS of the interior.” 
Haucyon tevcocupHatus, (L.) The Burmese race seems always 
to have a somewhat albescent cap. 
Msrors quinticonor, Vieillot. (Obtained also by myself near 
Maulmein, and in Upper Martaban; likewise M. puinrprrnensrs 
at Rangoon; and M. viripis everywhere, mostly with a redder 
head than in India. I observed numbers of this last species bur- 
