Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
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this division. Very few other birds — Megalaima lineata, Shama, Turtur 
tif/rinus (as distinguished from I. suratensis ), Treron Phayrei, Melias 
tristis, Mot., luzoniensis, Pycn. ni.gropileus, Gaprimulgus monticolm* 
and on the river sand-hanks Esacus and IIopl. centra. lis abound. 
Nycticorax common, and the usual small Totani. 1 have not even 
heard a Woodpecker, at least here, but on the march 1 noticed Chr. 
sultaneus, G. viridanus, and Meigl. jugular is ."t Of Hornbills, only 
P,. albirostris, which my host insists is capital eating. These Karens 
are an impracticable set : they are now busy with their rice-harvest, 
but I hope soon to get fish, &c. from them. Not any as yet ; nor 
orchids, though plenty about. Of plants, the Plumbago rosea grows 
wild here, of the large full-coloured variety,- looking very splendid. 
Also the fine Eranthenmm erectum. Thunbergia laurifolia (vel Bwr- 
mesiana ) abounds in the jungle, and I have once met with Th. odo- 
rata in deep jungle. Ferns are numerous. Of insects remarkably 
few. On the Yunzalin river I twice saw the fine Papilio polijmnestor, 
which I had hitherto only seen from Lower Bengal ; but very many 
of the common Bengal butterflies are about here, still not numer- 
ously. At this season it is decidedly an unfavorable place for making 
collections, as there is scarcely any getting about, and the tree- 
jungle is very high, and most difficult to distinguish birds in, straiu- 
ing one’s neck till it aches in the perpetual effort. The Karens 
are civil and quiet, but quite indifferent to any money payment. 
They won’t sell their ducks and fowls and pigs, and won’t settle down 
to regular cultivation. And what is strange, for thorough jungle-wal- 
lahs, they have no notion of entrapping any thing, and do not fish 
at this season. A Burman has just brought me in a small Monitor 
dracaena and a small common Calotes versicolor, and these are almost 
the only reptiles I have seen, — not one snake as yet, save a Tropido- 
notus (?) in the Salween. My people tell me, however, that they 
have seen one or two snakes — -likely enough. I have walked miles 
without seeing a single thing to shoot at, and often without hearing 
a chirp. On the march we came on the remains of a Peahen (P. 
muticus), killed by some jungle-cat. I also twice came- upon huge 
specimens of Scorpio afer, right in the middle of the foot-path, and 
scorning to move off. From all this you will perceive that 1 have not 
* Also the fine Lyncornis cereiniceps of Gould, — very plentiful. 
t Many species since obtained. 
