Some surviving individuals were discovered in the 1970s and were bred with white Booted Bantams to recreate the breed.
[2]: 269 According to the Poultry Club of Great Britain the Burmese derives from birds sent to the United Kingdom from Burma in the 1880s by an officer in the British Army.
[1]: 106 [3]: 330 William Flamank Entwisle received one of these birds, apparently a carrier of the creeper gene, and bred from it.
[1]: 106 [5]: 190 An attempt has been made in Holland to re-create the Burmese by cross-breeding other bantams, but the results do not closely resemble the birds shown in historic drawings by Harrison Weir and J.W.
[1]: 106 [3]: 330 [6] The Burmese resembles the Booted Bantam, but is smaller and lower to the ground; it has a small crest.