Vol. XV, pp. 157-158 June 25, 1902 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



DESCRIPTIONS OF TWO NEW BIRDS FROM TRONG, 



LOWER SIAM.* 



BY CHARLES W. RICHMOND. 



Among the birds collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott in the 

 province of Trong, Lower Siam, and forwarded to the U. S. 

 National Museum, are two apparently new forms which are here 

 described. The first, a species of Stachyris, was sent for deter- 

 mination to Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe, who considered it new and 

 nearly related to S. clirysma. The latter species is not repre- 

 sented in the Museum collection, hence a direct comparison lias 

 not been made. 



* 



Stachyris chrysops new species. 



Type. — Adult male, No. 1G0,.566, U. S. National Museum, summit of 

 Khow Nom Plu, 3000 feet, Trong, Lower Siam, February 22, 1897, Dr. 

 W. L. Abbott. Nape, back, scapulars, outer margins of wing and tail 

 feathers, upper tail-coverts and rump, brownish olive green, paler and 

 more jellowish on the latter; forehead, orange-ochraceous; crown and 

 occiput ochre yellow, streaked with black; lores and a narrow rictal 

 streak, black; throat, breast, abdomen, and bend of wing, ochre yellow, 

 deeper on the throat; imder tail-coverts, sides of body, sides of neck 

 and ear-coverts, brownish wax yellow; under wing-coverts, axillaries, 



*Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. 



29-BlOL. SOC. WASH. VOL. XV, 1902. (157) 



