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neum, although in his original description (J. A. S. B. 1859, 
p. 414) Blyth described it as being a typical Pellorneum in 
structure. It seems to me to fall more nearly under the genus 
Drymocataphus. On comparing the type of Drymocataphus 
fulvus, Walden (Ann.&Mag. N. H. ser. 4, xv. p. 401), with true 
P. tickelli , I find that my species cannot be specifically sepa¬ 
rated. And I observe that Mr. Hume (Str. Eeath. 1877, 
p. 59) expresses an almost confident opinion that D. fulvus, 
Walden, = Trie host oma minus, Hume, in which case T. minus 
will also become a synonym of D. tickelli, and not, as I had 
suggested (Blyth, B. Burma, no. 366), of Trichostoma abbotti. 
The figure (Plate X.) of Pellorneum subochraceum, Swinh., 
= Pellorneum minus, Hume, is taken from an example ob¬ 
tained by Lieutenant Wardlaw Ramsay on the Karen hills; 
and examples of this species collected by Mr. Limborg above 
Meetan do not differ. 
The figures of Drymocataphus tickelli (Plate XI. f. 1) and 
of Trichostoma abbotti (Plate XI. f. 2) are from Tenasserim 
examples, obtained by Mr. Limborg. 
XL.— Notes on some Burmese Birds. By Lieutenant 
Wardlaw Ramsay, 67th Regiment, M.B.O.U. 
(Plates XII., XIII.) 
The following remarks, which are partly extracts from my 
note-book kept during a three years’ residence in Burma, I 
venture to publish. As Mr. A. O. Hume, in his “List of 
the Birds of Upper Pegu” (S. F. ii. p. 1), and Mr. Oates 
(S. F. iii. p. 335) have already contributed copious notes on 
the birds of Burma, derived from various sources, I have 
endeavoured as much as possible to avoid repetition of facts 
which have already been made known by these gentlemen 
and other writers. A few ornithological occurrences have 
come under my notice which I cannot find recorded else¬ 
where ; and some of these may prove of interest to readers 
of ‘ The Ibis.’ 
