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breast, and upper abdomen with broad but indistinct dark brown 

 central streaks. 



CARPODACUS ERYTHRINUS ERYTHRINUS (Pallas) 



West Siberian Common Eosefinch 



Loxia erythrina Pallas, Novi commentarii Academiae scientiarum imperialis 

 Petropolitanae, vol. 14, pt. 1, 1770, pp. 587-5SS, pi. 23, fig. 1 ("ad Volgam et 

 Samaram" ; type locality restricted to "Wolga, als erstgenannter Fundort," 

 by Hartert, Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna, vol. 1, 1910, p. 106; here 

 further restricted to Kuibishev [Samara], at the junction of the Volga and 

 Samara Rivers). 



An adult male rosefinch, taken by my collectors on Doi Langka, 

 March 4, 1937, is indistinguishable from specimens of C. e. erythrinus; 

 unless this example be an aberrant individual of roseatus, we must 

 assume that the highly migratory Siberian race at least occasionally 

 reaches northern Thailand. It is interesting, in this connection, to 

 note that Ticehurst states (Ibis, 1938, p. 615) : "More than one form, 

 I think, occurs in Burma, one of winch is, no doubt, roseatus, but one 

 obtained by Mr. Stanford I cannot separate from erythrinus." 



It is probable that my bird was in company with a flock of roseatus, 

 of which a specimen was collected at the same locality just one day 

 earlier. 



From the old male of roseatus, that of erythrinus (at least in winter) 

 differs in having the carmine-rose of the plumage everywhere paler 

 (more rose, less carmine) and in having the roseate hue beneath 

 scarcely extending beyond the upper abdomen. Females of the two 

 forms are apparently identical. 



EMBERIZA FUCATA FUCATA Pallas 



Siberian Gray-hooded Bunting 



timber iza fucata Pallas, Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des russischen 

 Reichs, vol. 3, 1776, pp. 237, 69S (at the Onon and Ingoda rivers, southeastern 

 Siberia). 



Emberisa fucata fucata, Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, p. 

 170 (Ban Bu, Ban Tong Yang). 



I have collected one female at Ban Bu (Nan Province) and another 

 at Ban Tong Yang (Chiang Eai Province) , April 21 and May 4, 1936 ; 

 these are still the only examples known from our area but specimens 

 were also taken, April 25 and 29, 1936, at Ban Din Tok and Ban Na 

 Ban, localities in French Laos only a few miles from the borders of 

 Thailand. 



I found this shy species in small numbers, feeding among the stub- 

 bles of fallow ricefields in company with the commoner Emberiza a. 

 ornata. 



