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Serilophus lunatus lunatus [partim], de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, 1929, p. 565 (Chiang Saen). 



The eastern form of the silver-breasted broadbill seems to be 

 generally distributed, even though rare, in those parts of the North 

 not inhabited by the preceding race. In addition to the localities 

 listed above, it is known from Pha Hing, where Eisenhofer took 

 specimens on May 7 and 8, 1912 (Hannover). 



This subspecies apparently occurs as a usual thing at low altitudes 

 but otherwise does not differ in habits from lunatus. De Schauensee 

 notes that, at Chiang Saen, he watched a flock flycatching from the 

 upper branches of bushes. 



From lunatus, elisabethae differs only in having the chestnut-rufous 

 of the rump and the chestnut of the upper tail coverts rather deeper 

 in tone. 



EURYLAIMUS JAVANICUS PALLIDUS Chasen 



Thai Banded Broadbill 



Eurylaimus javanicus pallidas Chasen, Bull. Raffles Mus., No. 10, 1935, pp. 43-44 



(Khao Nong, Ban Don, Peninsular Thailand). 

 Eurylaemus javanicus, Gyijjenstolpe, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, 1915, p. 229 



(listed) ; Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., 1916, p. S6 (Khun Tan, Pha 



Hing); Ibis, 1920, p. 581 (Khun Tan, Pha Hing). 



The banded broadbill is a bird of extreme rarity in northern Thai- 

 land, and I never succeeded in finding it anywhere within our limits. 

 Eisenhofer sent to Stockholm four undated specimens (one male, 

 three females) from Khun Tan and two males, taken April 23 and 28, 

 1912, from Pha Hing. Gyldenstolpe shot a pair from a small flock 

 at Khun Tan, May 24, 1914. In the Raffles Museum (Singapore) 

 is a male taken by a Thai collector at the foot of Doi Chiang Dao, 

 March 16, 1937. The species should be sought for in districts with 

 extensive lowland evergreen. 



The adult male has the head and neck deep vinaceous-red; the 

 back and scapulars black, boldly streaked with yellow; the upper 

 tail coverts black, broadly tipped with yellow; the rectrices black, 

 the outer pairs with a broad subterminal spot or band of buffy white ; 

 the primaries black with a yellowish- white spot on the inner web near 

 the base; the secondaries black with a yellow spot on the outer web 

 near the center ; the upper wing coverts black ; the under wing coverts 

 yellow; the throat vinaceous-red washed with silvery gray; across 

 the upper breast a narrow black gorget, followed by an indistinct 

 broader band of deep silvery gray; the remaining underparts vina- 

 ceous-red, changing to vinaceous-yellow on the under tail coverts ; the 

 thighs black. The adult female differs from the male only in lacking 

 the black gorget. 



