BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 283 



colored bird also and tliat his type came from China and not from 

 Japan. 



Beside the specimens collected by Dr. Smith and Dr. Abbott, the 

 United States National Museum possesses a female from Koh Kut 

 Island, a female from Ok Yam, and an unsexed specimen from Salanga, 

 in addition to a small series from western and southern China. 



The species breeds in China and migrates to Indo-China, Siam,. 

 and Peninsular Siam to winter. 



Robinson and Kloss ^° state that it is only a winter visitor to Penin- 

 sular Siam. De Schauensee ^^ records it from Petrui and Sriracha. 

 Apparently there are no records from northern Siam so it probably 

 comes into the country from the east or southeast. 



The male is very light gray (gull gray); only the forehead, lores, 

 and chin are blackish; the region around the eye and ear coverts is 

 white; and the tail above is light gray to the tip. The female is 

 darker; the white around the eye restricted; the ear coverts and below 

 the eye washed with drab-gray; the tail above often dusky at the tip. 



Two males from Siam and six from China measure: Wing, 140-151 

 (148.5); tail, 130-142 (132.9); middle tail feathers, 99-108.5 (104.6); 

 culmen, 21-22.5 (22) mm. Five females from Siam, one from Tenas-^ 

 serim, and two from China: Wing, 137.5-146 (142.7); tail, 127-141 

 (135); middle tail feathers, 100-109 (104.5); culmen, 20.5-22.5 (21.3) 

 mm. 



DICRURUS LEUCOGENIS SALANGENSIS Reichenow 



Dicrurus leucoge?iys salangensis Reichenow, Nomenclator Musei Heineani 

 ornithologici, p. 69, 1890 (Insula Salanga). 



One male and two females, Bangkok, October 5, 15, and 27 (in three 

 different years); one male and one female, Nong Yang, October 20, 24, 

 1931; one male, Hupbon, November 5, 1931; one male, Kao Seming, 

 Krat, October 15, 1928; one female, Kao Sabap, October 30, 1933. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected one female Lay Song Hong, Trang,. 

 December 2, 1896 and one male, Domel Island, Mergui Archipelago,^ 

 February 27, 1900. He gives the soft parts as: Iris orange-brown 

 (male), dark brown (female) ; bill and feet black. 



This is a much darker bird than D. I. leucogenis. The male is deep 

 neutral gray; the forehead and .chin blackish, but the former not con- 

 trasting conspicuously with the crown, which is darker than the back; 

 the light area surrounding the eye contracted and the region below the 

 eye and ear coverts washed with drab; the tail dusky above for some 

 distance from the tip. In the female the white is confined to the lores, 

 the ear coverts and subocuiar region being gray. There is one female 

 from Nong Yang in which the region around the eye is only a little 

 lighter gray than the throat. 



M Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 345, 1924. 



•1 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 8G, p. 22t5, 1934. 



