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

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    (Eyton), A. pyrrliogaster (Reiclicnbach) of Province Wellesley, but is sufficiently distinguished. [Eastern slopes of the Pegu hills (0.).] • 537. Caloperdix ocellata. Tetrao ocdlatus, Raffles, Tr. L. S. xiii. p. 322; Perdix oculca, Tem.; Hardw. Ill. Zool. i. pi. 58. Obtained by Major Berdmore in Mcrgui province. ITab. also Province Wellesley and Sumatra. [Temminck’s specific title has precedence.] 538. Bambusicola ettchei. Bambnsicola fytehei, J. Anderson, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 211, pi. xi. Was obtained on the hill-sides of Ponsee, at an elevation of 3000 feet. 539. Rollulus cristatus. Columba cristata, Gmelin; Perdix coronata, Latham. Yallcy of the Tenasserim river, Siam, Malayan peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. “More common about Malacca than in the Wellesley Province and in Tenasserim” (Stoliczlca). [Must stand as Rollulus roulroul.] *540. CoTURNIX COMMUNIS (J. 829). Arakan, Martaban. [Karen nee ( TV. A.).] 541. C. COROMANDELICUS (J. 830). Common in Upper Burma. 542. Excalfactoria chinensis (J. 831). Tetrao chinensis, Lin.; Gould, B. As. pt. x. pi. 12. Arakan, Tenasserim, Malayan peninsula and islands. Fan. Turnicidae. Hemipodes. 543. Turnix blaneokdi. Turnix blanfordi, nobis, J. A. S. B. xxxii. p. 80; Hemipodius maculosus, Tem. (?), Turnix maculatus, Vieillot, Gal. dcs Oiscaux, t. 217. Arakan, Pegu.* [Tonghoo, Karen nee ( TP. Ii.)-, Kollidoo (Zb). Not to be separated from Shanghai and Chefoo examples.] * vide Swinhoe, in P. Z. S. 1871, p. 402.