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No specimens of the other forms of this species have been available 

 for comparison. 



Gyldenstolpe "^ took a male at Doi Par Sakeng; Deignan *^ came 

 across it only once in July at Chiengmai; de Schauensee ^^ secured 

 specimens at Chieng Rai and Chieng Sen and on his third expedition 

 at Tamuang; ^^ Robinson and Kloss ^ record it from Mamoh and 

 Tapli, Pakchan Estuary, and Tasan, Chumporn. Apparently, then, 

 it occurs nearly all over Siam proper and extreme northern Peninsular 

 Siam. 



The form ranges from the Lower Chindwin and southern Shan 

 States in Burma south to Southern Tenasserim and east through 

 Siam to Laos, Tonkin, and northern Annam. 



SASIA ABNORMIS EVERETTI Hargitt 



Sasia everetti Hargitt, Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 18, 

 p. 559, pi. 15, juv., 1890 (Lumbidan, Borneo). 



One male, Bukit, Patani, January 24, 1931; one female, Yala> 

 Patani, February 2, 1931; one female, Kao Luang, Nakon Sritamarat* 

 3,000 feet, July 14, 1928; one female, Kao Soi Dao, Trang, January 12, 

 1934; one female, Kao Chong, Trang, September 2, 1933. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected two adult males and one immature 

 female in Trang (Rao Soi Dao, February 10, 1899; Prahmon, March 6, 

 1896; Tyching, July 3, 1896). He describes the soft parts as: Iris 

 red; orbital skin livid purple; upper mandible black, lower mandible 

 greenish yellow; feet brownish yellow or orange, claws pale brownish 

 horn. 



The only difference between the sexes seems to be that in the male 

 the feathers of the forehead are tipped with light cadmium yellow, 

 while in the female they are kaiser brown. Apparently there is little 

 or no difference in size. 



The immature female collected by Dr. Abbott at Tyching, Trang, 

 July 3, is similar to the plate of the type of Sasia everetti, quoted 

 above, except the pileum and upper back are a little deeper than 

 hair brown, with little or no olive wash; only the ear coverts and a 

 narrow line above the eye posteriorly are orange-cinnamon, and the 

 lores are blackish. 



There appears to be no difference in color or size between speci- 

 mens from the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, and Sumatra. Three 

 males from Peninsular Siam measure: Wing, 52-55 (53.3); tail, 

 19-22 (20.7); culmen, 12-13 (12.7) mm. Five males from Borneo 

 and one from Sumatra: Wing, 49-53 (51.9); tail, 20-23.5 (21); 



»« Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 97, 1916. 

 " Journ. Siam Soc. N.it. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 158, 1931. 

 »• Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 81, p. 668, 1930. 

 •» Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 253, 1934. 

 ■» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 200. 1923. 



