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washed with a Hghter bhie and the neck band is a Hghter pink, while 

 in the male from Kanburi and Vichienbiiri, the blue on the nape is 

 practically absent and the neck band is a little deeper than grenadine. 

 The latter are apparently adult. These differences may be individual. 



The exact range of this form is rather uncertain. It apparently 

 extends from western and northern Siam through eastern Siam to 

 lower Laos, Cambodia, and Cochinchina. 



Chasen and Kloss ^^ record it from the Raheng District. A number 

 of authors have recorded it from northern Siam, and the type came 

 from eastern Siam. Dr. Smith's specimens from Kanburi come from 

 about as far to the southwest as the form has yet been taken in Siam. 

 De Schauensee " obtained a specimen at Chiengmai and another at 

 Metang, which he thinks represents another subspecies but does not 

 name it. 



PSITTACULA CYANOCEPHALA BENGALENSIS (Forster) 



Psittacus hengalensis Forster, Indische Zoologie, p. 40, 1781 (Bengal). 



One male and two females, Muang Kanburi, April 8-11, 1928 

 one female, Pran, June 1, 1928; one female, Bung Borapet, June 24 

 1932. 



The range of this form is from Nepal, Sikkim, eastern Assam, 

 Yunnan, and Burma south to Siam and Tenasserim and east to Laos, 

 Cambodia, Cochinchina, Annam, and southern China. It seems 

 pretty well distributed over the whole of Siam proper. Kloss ^* 

 has recorded it from Koh Lak in southwestern Siam, which seems to be 

 about the limit of its range in that direction. 



PSITTACULA HIMALAYANA FINSCHI (Hume) 



Palaeornis finschi Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. 2, p. 509, 1874 (KoUidoo, Burma). 



One immature male and one female, Prae, April 28, 1930; one male 

 and one female, Doi Buak Hua Chang, December 25, 1932; one female, 

 Melang Valley, December 31, 1932; one female, Muang Pai, December 

 29, 1932; one male, Hang Nor Wu, January 14, 1933; one male, 

 Lomkao, February 20, 1934. Dr. Smith also took a male at Chong 

 Yam, Burma, January 15, 1933. 



The United States National Museum has a large series from the 

 mountains of Yunnan, but the majority are in molt or are immature 

 and not comparable. The only full-plumaged male in the series does 

 not differ materially from the northern Siamese specimens, except 

 the tips of the middle tail feathers are a clearer yellow, without the 

 pinkish cast of Dr. Smith's birds. I rather think this pinkish wash 

 fades out with age. 



" Jotirn. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 7, p. 164, 1928. 

 '3 Prof. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 259, 1934. 

 " Ibis, 1918, p. 90. 



