3 94 Correspondence. [No. 2, 
“ Of the upper dry region, the most characteristic animal is perhaps 
a ground Thrush ( Chatarrhcea gularis, Blyth). I have never met 
with this bird below Prome ; nor have I ever seen it in thick or high 
jungle. It is entirely an inhabitant of bushes. It is common at 
Thayet Myo; and higher up, about Yen&n-phyoung and Pugan, it far 
exceeds any other bird in its numbers. Your Lepus peguensis is also, 
so far as I know, confined to this dry region as are also the few 
Jackals which occur in Burma- I have not heard of them, however, 
above the frontier ; but suspect they will be found there, as well as at 
Meadav and Prome. 
“ Dr. Jerdon’s new species of Magpie ( Crypsirina cucullata), and 
his new Pericrocotus, f and probably his new Mainas,J are other 
species peculiar to the dry region ; none of them appearing to occur 
below : your TTrocissa magnirostris I met with, near the base of the 
Arakan hills, as far south as the neighbourhood of Gnathem-phyoung, 
but no further. 
“ Of the damper climate of Lower Pegu, one of the most typical 
birds, so far at least as abundance is concerned, is the large JBuceros 
plicatus (your rujicollis , the species with deep notches on the sides 
of the bill,) of Arakan.§ Sciurus Keraudrenii I have seen near 
Mvansoing ; but it is far more common to the south ; where, also, a 
peculiar variety of Sc. bicolor , with a light patch or band on the 
back, is tolerably abundant. If Sc. bicolor exists in Upper Burma, it 
must be excessively scarce.|| Sc. assamensis (?) is common through¬ 
out the Bassein district; and another species ( Sc r) i s said to occur 
above; but of this I am far from certain. 
* I was assured of the existence of Hares on the left bank of the Salween above 
the junction of the Yuuzalin river.— Cur. As. Soc. 
t P. albifuns , Jerdon, Ibis, 1860. 
t Major Ticked called my attention to a white-headed Maina, which, lie re¬ 
marked, he had only seen about Rangoon, where I sought for it in vain. It 
ia doubtless the Temenuchus burmesianus , Jerdon {loc. cit .), obtained by him at 
Thayet Myo, and by Mr. Blanford in various parts of Upper Burma. I observ¬ 
ed, however, in Col. Pliayre’s compound in Rangoon, a' flock of the beautiful 
Ploceus hypoxanthus , (Daudin) ; Dr. Jerdon obtained this bird at Thayet Myo . 
and Sir R. H. Scliomburgk in Siam (P. Z. S. 1859, p. 151) : it bavin* * * § pre¬ 
viously been only known from Java and other islands of the great Eastern 
archipelago.— Cur. As. Soc. ° 
§ The most characteristic bird of the Martaban and Tenasserim jungles is 
certainly Qarrulax Belanyeri , at all elevations. The Slrfma (Kittacincia ma- 
croura) is also very abundant.— Cur. As. Soc. 
i[ It is not likely to occur in Upper Burm6, to judge from the analogy of Sc 
purpureus of Central India, the range of which does not extend to Unner Hin¬ 
dustan.-—Cw. As. Soc. ™ 
