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Family TIMALIIDAE: Babbling Thrushes 



GARRULAX CHINENSIS PROPINQUUS (Salvador!) 



Dryonastes propinquus Salvadori, Ann. Mus. Civ. Genova, ser. 3, vol. 6, p. 6, 

 1914 (Thagut, Tenasserim). 



One male, Khim Tan Mountains, 4,000 feet. May 10, 1933; one 

 male, Doi Hua Mot, September 4, 1934; one male, Muang Pai, 

 December 28, 1932; one male, Kao Lem, December 27, 1930. 



Gairdner ^^ records it from the Petchaburi District; Gyldenstolpe ^^ 

 took a female at Khun Tan and saw two at Chienghai. Chasen and 

 Kloss ^* record one from the Raheng District; this specimen is now in 

 the United States National Museum and is immature. Deignan ^^ 

 says it is rare or local on the Chiengmai Plain but can usually be 

 found in the scrub to the south of Nawng Haw. De Schauensee ^^ 

 took three specimens at Chiengrai and says that it is an uncommon 

 babbler in northern Siam. 



The range of the form extends from Tenasserim to western, north- 

 ern, and eastern Siam. 



GARRULAX LEUCOLOPHUS DIARDI (Lesson) 



Turdus diardi Lesson, Traits d'ornithologie, p. 408, 1831 (Cochinchina), 



Two males and one female, Koh Lak, June 7-14, 1933; four males, 

 two females, and one unsexed, Pran, May 27, June 3, 1928, April 2, 

 3, 1931; one male, Sam Roi Yot, November 14, 1932; five males and 

 five females, Muang Kanburi, April 7, 8, and September 10, 11, 1928; 

 one male and one female. Bo Ploi, Kanburi, September 9, 1928, Sep- 

 tember 26, 1929; one male and one female, Sai Yok, Kanburi, Sep- 

 tember 23, 1929; two males, Doi Angka, 2,000 feet, December 2, 8, 

 1928; two females, Chiengdao, January 29, 1932; one female, Khun 

 Tan, October 22, 1929; one male and one female, Ban Nam Kien, 

 Nan, April 18, 19, 1930; one male and one female, Prae, April 10, 

 1930; one male Mekhan, February 7, 1932, two males; Muang Pai, 

 December 27, 29, 1932; one female, Gengkoi, October 16, 1932; one 

 unsexed, Lomkao, February 21, 1934; two males and one female, Lat 

 Bua Kao, August 9, 11, 1929; sLx males, five females, and one un- 

 sexed, Pak Chong, February 17, April 29, May 2, November 20- 

 December 21, 1926; one female, Sikeu, near Korat, February 4, 1926; 

 one male. Pang Sok, August 14, 1926; one female, Ban Foe Hilom, 

 March 3, 1929; one male, Nong Kai, February 18, 1929; two males 

 and one female, Nong Khor, near Sriracha, November 19, 1924, 

 November 8, 1926; two males, Huey Yang, Sriracha, August 4, 5, 



M Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 1, p. 148, 1915. 



«3 Kungl. Sevenska Vet.-Akad. nandl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 55, 1916. 



M Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. SuppL, vol. 7, p. 175, 1928. 



«5 Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 136, 1931. 



•« Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 88, p. 183, 1934. 



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