Catalogue of mammals and birds of Burma / by the late E. Blyth ; with a memoir, and portrait of the author.

  • Edward Blyth
Date:
1875
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    being other than a race of T. suratensis, of India with Ceylon, but, except where the two come in contact, the difference would seem to be maintained. [Ycy-tho, Thayet Myo (TV. JR.). Mr. Hume, Str. Feath. iii. p. 164) speaks of “typical tigrina from Sumatra.” As the species, T. tigrinus, was not described from a Sumatran individual, it is difficult to gather what is meant by the expression “typical.”] *518. T. meexa (J. 793). Gyo-peing- tu-ma. Arakan, Tenasserim. A specimen of T. cambaiensis flew on board a steamer when in sight of land on the voyage from Moulmein to Rangoon.* [Tonghoo, Karen nee, at 4000 feet (W. i?.).] [519. T. bisoeitjs (J. 796). Thayet Myo (F.). Professor Schlegel (Mus. P.-Bas, Cohmbae, p. 123) adopts the title of T. douraca, Hodgs., for this Indian dove, and restricts the Linmean title to the domestic bird of Europe (t. c. p. 125). But all the authors Linnaeus quotes described the bird from India. It is the Turtur indicus of Aldrovandi, and Linnaeus says “ habitat in India.”] 520. Maceopygia etificeps. Cohimba ruficeps, Tem.; P.C. 561. Mergui, Province Wellesley, Java. A finer species akin to this inhabits the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, M. rufipennis, nobis ;f and the II. tusalia is likely to occur on the higher mountains of Arakan, if not further south; it is not rare on the Khasias, and a smaller race of the same is described from Hainan. | [This Javan species may occur as stated, but the following appears to be the commoner form.] [521. M. Assniri.is. M. assimilis, Hume, Str. Feath. ii. p. 441. Karen hills, at 3000 feet. Iris (?), grey; bill and legs, vinous brown ( W. It.); Kollidoo (Z>.).] [522. M. tusalia (J. 791). Karen nee ( W. It.); Kollidoo (71.).] * Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 406. f J. A. S. B. xv. p. 371. j Ibis, 1870, p. 355.