Stray Feathers - A Journal of Ornithology for India and its Dependencies January 1875

These outlying hills however are too low to have any effect on the distribution of birds and for the purposes of this paper the country lying on the left bank of the Irrawaddy for about thirty miles inland will be termed in my notes 'the plains ' in contradistinction to the hills.' "The vegetation of the plains and of the western spurs to a height of 1 000 feet is nearly the same. [...] " Thayetmyo lies on the west bank of the Irrawaddy and consists of a native town to the south and a cantonment to the north. [...] 'The ravines in the hill ranges are rocky and rock breaks through the crest of the hills in one or two places but the whole of the rest of the country consists of black soil like cotton soil "10 A FIRST LIST OF THE blue and yellow clays gravel or whitish sand and is clothed with tree jungle more or less thick according to the nature of the soil. [...] Returning now to the 317 species which I am able to record as a definiteinstalmentof the Orni8 of the particular tract with which we are dealing it will be convenient to divide them into four classes:- 1.—Species (which for the nonce I will call Ado-Burmese) common to our tract and to one or more of the following sub-divisions : Bengal east of the Ganges to Goalundo and thence of the Bral:mapoot [...] Whether you go east south or west you find a diminution relatively in the numbers of the purely Indian and purely Burmese forms and an increase in the Indo-Burmese and except in Arrakan in the Indo-Malayan and Chinese forms the increase of the latter east of the Salween being most marked.