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species for the present, and I am doing the same. One may be migra- 

 tory and the other resident. 



V. melanoptera ranges from northern Burma to Siam, French Indo- 

 China, and southern China. In Peninsular Siam it has not been 

 obtained south of Naihut, near Langsuan, unless Miiller's record from 

 Junkseylon of V. amnsis belongs to this form, as recorded by Robinson 

 and Kioss.^" 



In southern China the species is migratory, according to La Touche,'* 

 and in India and northern Siam it may be also ; it breeds in Tenasserim, 

 however. 



VOLVOCIVORA MELASCHISTOS Hodgson 



Volvocivora melaschistos Hodgson, Indian Rev., vol. 1, p. 328, 1837 (Nepal). 



One male, Khun Tan, P'ebruary 13, 1932. 



This specimen is even darker than a typical bird from the Hima- 

 layas. Above it is a shining greenish black, grayish on the rump, 

 and darker on the wings and tail; below it is dusky neutral gray, 

 slightly paler on the under tail coverts; wing, 124 mm. 



Possibly this species is only a migrant. Chasen and Kloss ^^ record 

 a male and female from Doi Sutep, 4,600 feet; Deignan ^^ says it is 

 fairly common on Doi Sutep from 2,000 to 4,600 feet. The species 

 ranges from the Himalayas to eastern Assam, the plains of India 

 from latitude 16° N., Burma, and northern Siam. 



VOLVOCIVORA FIMBRIATA CULMINATA (Hay) 



Ceblepyris culminatus Hay, Madras Journ. Lit. and Sci., vol. 13, p. 157, 1844 

 (1845) (Malacca). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took an adult male, Trang, February 23, 1899. 

 He gives the soft parts as: Iris dark browTi; bill black; feet dull black. 



This specimen is lighter than two males from Sumatra, two from 

 Borneo, and one from Siberut Island; the last is not quite adult and 

 is somewhat lighter than the Sumatra-Borneo birds, which are adult. 



The two Sumatran males are much darker than the Trang male, 

 one having the pileum, cheeks, and throat blackish, the other a deep 

 neutral gray. The Trang male is neutral gray, somewhat lighter on 

 the belly and rump. 



The male from Trang measures: Wing, 104; tail, 73; culmen, 16 mm. 

 Two males from Sumatra: Wing, 92-97; tail, 63-65; culmen, 13.5-15 

 mm. Two males from Borneo: Wing, 94-95. 5; tail, 65-66; culmen, 

 15.5-16 mm. One male from Siberut Island, western Sumatra: W^ing, 

 103; tail, 70; culmen, 15 mm. 



In color the two Bornean males are similar to the lighter of the 

 Sumatran males. 



»» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. ."i, p. 253, 1924. 



" A handhook of tiie birds of eastern China, vol. 1, pt. 3, p. 202, 1926. 



M Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 242, 1932. 



M Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 10, p. 101, 1936. 



