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provinces, tributary to Siam, who had been summoned on Govern¬ 
ment business to Bangkok, declared it to be a bird belonging to his 
distinct. He likewise declared that another bird, sold to me as the 
female, smaller in size with brown plumage, to be really the female; 
though the size and colour of the two are entirely different. As 
regards manners, however, and the peculiar cry of recognition when 
a person whom they know is approaching, or is to give them food, 
these are entirely similar. M. von Martens, the naturalist of the 
Prussian expedition under Count Eulanburg, was of opinion that the 
bird in question was the female of D. Crawfurdii. Still I should be 
glad to obtain other proofs. If this bird belongs to the northern 
(or rather eastern) Shan States, you, through Major Tickell or some 
other friend at Moulmein, will be able to procure further informa¬ 
tion. At Major Tickell’s house I saw a living specimen of the bird ; 
hut the Major was absent during my visit.” 
Extract from a letter from W. T. Bl.ustoed, Esq. (written on his 
voyage to Suez) to Mr. Blyth ; dated from Galle } May doth, 1862. 
“ I promised, if I could, to write you a few notes about the dis¬ 
tribution of the Burmese animals, on my way from Calcutta to Galle. 
I now hurriedly jot down the more important points which struck 
me. 
“ You know that Lower Pegu is distinguished from Upper Burma, 
as regards climate, pretty much as Lower Bengal differs from the 
Upper Gangetic plains; hut in a much greater degree : Pegu being 
damper than Bengal; Upper Burma dryer than the N. W. provinces. 
The great change takes place above our territories, and is most 
strongly marked after passing Mendha. But a very considerable 
alteration in the vegetation, and a corresponding one in the 
Fauna, take place at a much lower point, and are perhaps first ho be 
noticed about Akouk-toung, a rocky promontory on the banks of the 
Irawadi about 30 miles below Prome. A comparatively dry region, 
however, stretches down the eastern flank of the Arakan hills, so far 
as they form a high connected range, that is—to a little below the 
parallel of Henzada ; and of this the Fauna of the range of hills 
stretching to Cape Negrais is, in its principal features, essentially 
Arakanese, the hills being covered with dark evergreen jungle. My 
experience of both regions is mainly confined to the west side of the 
Irawadi river. 
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