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Birds of Burma. 



[No. 1, 



424. CYMBOEHYlsrCHUS MACEOEHY^CHUS. 

 Todm meter or hynchus, Gm. ; Gould, B. As. pt. v. pi. — 



Bassein, Tenasserim provinces, Siam, Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo. 



[Count Salvadori has recently (Atti E. Ac. Sc. Torino, ix. p. 421) re- 

 stricted Latham's Great-billed Tody to Sumatra and Borneo, also to Java, but 

 with a doubt, and has separated the Malayan Broadbill under a new title, 

 C. malaccensis {t. c. p. 425). True C. macrorhynchus, according to the 

 Count, has a black and unspotted tail ; whereas the Malayan bird, on the 

 three outer pairs of rectrices, has, towards the apex, and on the inner webs, 

 a white oblique spot. In the Malaccan bird this is so, and Sumatran examples 

 will more probably be found to agree with the Malaccan rather than with the 

 Bornean. But to which race Latham's type, contained in the Leverian 

 Museum, belonged, Count Salvadori does not make quite clear. Latham's 

 type, however, is, as the Count mentions, and as Herr von Pelzeln has told 

 us (Ibis, 1874, p. 19), extant in the Yienna Museum. "We may therefore 

 assume that the Count, with his accustomed accuracy, has satisfied himself 

 on the point.] 



*425. C. AEEIMS. 



C. affinis, nobis, J. A. S. B. xv. p. 312 ; Gould, B. As. pt. 5, pi. — 

 Arakan (Kamri), Tavoy (Gould), Siam, and Cambodja (G. R. Gray). 



*426. PsAEISOMUS DALHOUSm (J. 138). 

 Eurylaimus dalhousice, Jameson; Gould, B. As. pt. v, pi. — 



Arakan, Tenasserim, Sumatra. " On the table-land of Cherra Punji,' > 

 remarks Mr. Frith, " flocks of this bird often ascend, while, as they fly about 

 from garden to garden, the native boys hunt them by intercepting and turn- 

 ing their flight away from the gardens, when they are soon fatigued and 

 easily caught with the hand" (J. A. S. B. 1855, p. 279, note). 



[Karen hills, at 3000 feet (W. R.). I can find no record of a com- 

 parison having been made between this species and Sumatran U. psittacinus, 

 S. Mull.] 



Fam. Hirundinidae. 



Swallows. 

 *427. HiEinsTDo ettstica (J. 82). 



Mostly of the smaller eastern race (IT. gutturalis, Scopoli), but I think 

 not exclusively so. Arakan, Tenasserim. 

 [Tonghoo (W. JR.); Thayet Myo (0.).] 



