on some Burmese Birds. 
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197. Saraglossa spiloptera. 
This bird is tolerably abundant on the thickly wooded 
slopes of the Karen hills, where it is generally found in small 
flocks. 
Estrelda plavidiventris. 
Estrelda flavidiventris, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 495. 
Estrilda burmanica, Hume, S. F. iv. p. 484, 1876. 
Specimens from Burma are absolutely identical with ex¬ 
amples from the islands of Flores and Timor. 1 have com¬ 
pared birds shot at various seasons in Burma with a large 
series of Mr. Wallace's skins in the British Museum and in 
the collection of Lord Tweeddale. 
The Yellow-bellied Bed Waxbill is very locally distributed 
in Burma, but, where found, always common. I found it 
especially so at Yev-tho, near Bangoon, on the Prome road, 
in some parts of the Pegu plain, and again on the Karen-nee 
tableland. I have unfortunately no specimens from the latter 
country; so that I am unable to say to what species they 
may belong. 
Specimens from Saigon are a little smaller than Indian 
birds, but otherwise identical. 
212. Carpodacus erythrinus. 
The Bose-Finch is found in flocks in the bamboo jungles 
that have run to seed. In the month of April 1874 I found 
them particularly abundant at between 1000 and 2000 feet 
in the Karen hills. 
213. Euspiza aureola. 
These Buntings are found in vast flocks during the cold- 
weather months. On the Pegu plain in December 1873 they 
were spread over the ripe padi-fields in such countless numbers 
that men or boys had to be kept incessantly on the look-out 
to scare away the birds that alighted. Each look-out man 
was posted on a raised platform of bamboo, and was provided 
with a sling and a basket of stones. I have seen these slings 
used with great effect, several birds being killed by the dis¬ 
charge of a single stone. I saw a boy kill a Heron ( Ardea 
cinerea ) with a stone from one of these slings. At the end 
