368 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 221 



Family TIMALIIDAE: Babbling Thrushes 

 Genus PELLORNEUM Swainson 



Pellorneuni nipalense Bowdler Sharpe 



Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum 7: 518, 1883. 

 =Pellorneum ruficeps mandellii Blanford. See Deignan, Smithsonian 



Misc. Coll. 107 (14): 6, 1947. 

 98137. Adult (sex not indicated). Nepal. Collected by Brian H. 

 Hodgson. Original number 377. Received from the British Museum 

 (Natural History) . 

 Bowdler Sharpe's name was based upon a series of twelve specimens, 

 among which were representatives of what are now conceived to be two or 

 three different races. The possible cotypes of nipalense, in its restricted 

 sense, are the seven listed from Nepal (of which this is one), the two from 

 the Darjeeling District, and the one from the Duars of Bhutan. 

 Pellorneum ruficeps stageri Deignan 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 107 (14) : 8, Oct. 20, 1947. 

 377762. Aduh male. N'Pon Village (on the left bank of the Irrawaddy 

 River, 15 miles north of Myitkyina), Myitkyina District, Kachin State, 

 Burma. May 17, 1945. Collected by Kenneth E. Stager. Original 

 number B-176. Received from the United States of America Typhus 

 Commission. 

 Pellorneum ruficeps indigtinctum Deignan 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 107 (14) : 16, Oct. 20, 1947. 

 336635. Adult male. Chiang Saen Kao (lat. 20° 15' N., long. 100°05' 

 E.), Province of Chiang Rai, northernmost Siani. Jan. 12, 1937. 

 Collected by Herbert G. Deignan. Original number 2188. 

 Pellorneum ruficeps chthonium Deignan 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 107 (14) : 14, Oct. 20, 1947. 

 336631. Adult female. Doi Suthep (lat. 18°50' N., long. 98''55' E.), 

 at elev. 2,900 feet. Province of Chiang Mai, northwestern Siam. Nov. 

 21, 1936. Collected by Herbert G. Deignan. Original number 1932. 

 Pellorneum ruficeps insularuni Deignan 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 107 (14) : 12, Oct. 20, 1947. 

 180408. Adult female. Domel Island (lat. 11°37' N., long. 98°16' E.), 

 Mergui Archipelago, Mergui District, Tenasserim Division, Burma. 

 Jan. 25, 1904. Collected by William L. Abbott. 

 Pellorneum ruficeps acrum Deignan 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 107 (14) : 13, Oct. 20, 1947. 

 330563. Adult male. Yala (lat. 6°30' N., long. 101°15' E.), Province of 

 Yala, peninsular Siam. Jan. 30, 1931. Collected by Hugh McC. Smith. 

 Original number 4512. 



