xxii INTRODUCTION. 
I have made the above comparison as carefully as possible ; but the infor- 
mation regarding some of the countries above enumerated is very meagre, 
especially with regard to China. Two hundred Burmese Passeres will, in 
all probability, be ultimately found in that large country. 
A remarkable feature regarding Burmah is the large proportion of 
Passerine birds to be found in comparison to those of other orders. The 
following figures exhibit at a glance the number of species in each of the 
orders that are represented in Burmah : — 
1. Passeres 401 
II. Macrochires 19 
III. Pici 34 
IV. Coccyges 68 
V. PsiTTACI 7 
VI. Striges 19 
VII. ACCIPITRES .46 
VIII. Steganopodes 14 
IX. Herodiones 27 
X. Anseres . 14 
XI. COLUMB^ 22 
XII. Galling 21 
XIII. Geranomorph^ 14 
XIV. LiMicoL^ ........ 47 ' 
XV. GAvm 23 
XVI. TUBINARES 4 
XVII. Pygopodes 1 
Large as is the total number of species found in Burmah, it must not 
be supposed that the list is at all complete. Much remains to reward the 
explorer on the higher mountains, both of Arrakan and Tenasserim. The 
former Division has hardly been worked at all; the latter has been 
explored in a thorough manner, it is true, by Mr. Davison and Capt. 
Bingham, but much of the interior country bordering on Siam, and at 
present almost impracticable to a European, remains to be visited. The 
astonishing results which rewarded Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay in Karennee 
show what may be expected from a visit to the high mountainous parts of 
Burmah. 
In dealing with each species I have first given the synonymy in tolerable 
