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1932; one male, Doi Sutep, February 3, 1932; one male, Chiengdao, 

 January 29, 1932; one male, Pang Meton (Doi Nangka), May 6, 1931; 

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

 one female. Ban Nam Kien, Nan, April 19, 1930; one male, Udon, 

 March 18, 1929; one male. Ban Han, Udon, March 17, 1929; one 

 male, Aranya, July 19, 1930; two males, Nong Yang, October 20 and 

 November 9, 1931; one male. Pang Sok, August 15, 1926; one imma- 

 ture male, Lamton Lang, May 26, 1934; one male, Chantuk, June 

 12, 1934. 



In the above large series of males, two have the central tail feathers 

 entirely black, five have the base of the central tail feathers black, then 

 the outer web red for about two-thirds its length to the tip, one has 

 the central tail feathers almost entirely red, except for a narrow black 

 border on the outer web; the remainder have the exposed surface of 

 the central tail feathers on the outer web red. All the males, except 

 two, have only two outer primaries without red on the outer web; 

 the two exceptions have three outer primaries without red on the 

 outer web. 



The only difference apparently between elegans find Jlammifer is the 

 average smaller size of the latter, but even tliis is not constant. 



Fourteen males from northern Siam measure: Wing, 90-103 (97.4); 

 tail, 78-95 (87.4); culmen, 13-15 (14) mm. One male (no. 311643) 

 has a longer wing (103 mm) than the average, but it is approached by 

 one or more other males and I am regarding them as only extra 

 large specimens. 



I have followed de Schauensee '^ in assigning the above series to 

 P. elegans; with the material at hand it is impossible to say whether 

 P.f. bakeri La Touche is a synonym. 



Tills is the common minivet over northern and eastern Siam and 

 grades in the south into P. J. jiammifer. It ranges from Yunnan to 

 northern and eastern Siam and northern Burma; possibly east to 

 Tonkin and Laos. 



PERICROCOTUS FLAMMEUS FLAMMIFER Hume 



Pericrocotus Jiammifer Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. 3, p. 321, 1875 (Pakchan, 

 southern Tenasserim) . 



Two males, Bukit, Patani, January 24, 1931; one fem^ale, Patalung, 

 July 8, 1929; one male, Kao Luang, Nakon Sritamarat, July 21, 1928; 

 one male and one female. Ban Kiriwong, Nakon Sritamarat, July 11, 

 1928; one male, Kao Chong, Trang, September 6, 1933; one male, 

 Bandon, January 6, 1929; one male and two females, Sichol, Bandon, 

 May 19, 1930, August 31-September 1, 1929; two males, Tha Lo, 

 Bandon, September 23, 24, 1931; one male and two females, Pran, 

 April 1, 2, 1931; one male, Nong N^m Kiev/, February 15, 1927; one 



•• Proc. Acad. Nat. 8ci. PhUadelphla, vol. 86, p. 222, 1934. 



