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The Bung Borapet male measures: Wing, 61.5; tail, 77; culmen, 

 12 mm. The Mengtsz male: Wing, 70; tail, 98; culmen, 13 mm. 



C. s. sinensis ranges from India proper to Burma and south to 

 Tenasserim and northern Siam. 



PELLORNEUM KUFICEPS SUBOCHRACEUM Swinhoe 



Pellorneum subochraceum Swinhoe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, vol. 7, p. 259, 

 1871 (Tenasserim). 



Three males, Bangnara, Patani, July 16-20, 1926; one male, Bukit, 

 Patani, January 27, 1931; one male, Yala, Patani, January 30, 1931; 

 one immature male, Koh Samui, Bandon, August 7, 1931; one male, 

 Patalung, July 8, 1929; one male, Rajaburi, April 10, 1926; one male, 

 Kwe Noi, Kanburi, September 20, 1929; two males, Muang Kanburi, 

 April 12, 1928; three males and two females, Koh Lak, June 6-14, 

 1933; one male and one female, Gengkoi, October 16, 1932; one male» 

 Ban Manoa Wan, October 21, 1932; two females, Ban Tawai Phra, 

 Pasak River, October 22, 1932; three males, Sam Roi Yot, November 

 8-11, 1932; one male Kao Pae Pan Nam, Lamsak, February 19, 1934. 



The immature male from Koh Samui has some cinnamon-brown 

 feathers scattered through the huffy brown of the back; the pileum is 

 considerably darker than in the adult; both sides of the chest and 

 flanks are washed with tawny-olive; the fuscous streaks are rather 

 narrow and sparse and confined to the jugulum; otherwise similar to 

 the adult. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following: One male, Prahmon, 

 Trang, March 14, 1896; one male and two females, Tyching, Trang 

 June 4-July 27, 1896; one male and one female, Trang, February 15 

 and March 4, 1897; two males, Bok Pyin, Tenasserim, February 11-12, 

 1900; three males and two females, Mergui Archipelago (St. Matthew 

 Island, January 17, 1900; SuUivan Island, February 2, 1900; Ross 

 Island, March 5, 1900; Domel Island, January 25, 1904). Also two 

 sets of three eggs each m Trang, June 4, 1896, and March 4, 1897; 

 the first set with large embryos. He gives the color of the soft parts 

 as: Iris reddish brown; upper mandible horny brown, lower mandible 

 pale fleshy, yellow at the base; feet pale pinkish fleshy. 



The Tenasserim and Mergui specimens seem to be bufiier on the 

 chest and flanks and the back more tinged with cinnamon-brown than 

 the series from Trang; the Trang series is browner on the back when 

 compared with Dr. Smith's Peninsular Siam series, but below the 

 two series are much alike. I think the browner backs of the Trang 

 series are due to the fresh, unfaded condition of the plumage of Dr. 

 Smith's birds. All thi-ee series are less heavily streaked on the chest 

 than in the form occurring in northern and eastern Siam. The dif- 

 ferences between the three series from the Malay Peninsula are sUght 

 and may be seasonal. They are not worth recognizing by name. 



