BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 333 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took the following in Trang, Peninsular Siam: 

 two males, two females, ane one unsexed, Kao Soi Dao, 2,000-3,000 

 feet, February 1-15, 1899; two males and three females, Kao Nok 

 Ram, 2,000-3,000 feet, Januar}^ 8-14, 1899; one male and two fe- 

 males, Kao Nom Plu, 2,000 feet, February 20-24, 1897. He gives 

 the soft parts as: Iris pale brown to brownish red; bill pale horn 

 brown above, fleshy white beneath; feet pale brownish fleshy. 



The male from Kao Luang has a longer bill than those from Trang 

 but in plumage agrees w4th the Trang series. 



Robmson and Kloss ^^ have added no additional localities, but they 

 say this is a more riclily colored race than the typical form. The 

 only specimen of the latter possessed by the United States National 

 Museum, a female, is more richly colored than australis, however. 



Dr. Abbott took a nest and three eggs at Kao Nom Plu, Trang, 

 February 24, 1897. 



GYPSOPHILA CRISPIFRONS ANNAMENSIS (Delacour and Jabouille) 



Corythocichla annamensis Delacour and Jabouille, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 



vol. 48, p. 131, 1928 (Phuqui, northern Annam). 

 Cursonia crispifrons saxatilis Bangs and Van Tyne, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. 



Publ., zool. ser., vol. 18, p. 3, 1930 (Na River at Bac Tan Trai, Tonkin). 



Two males and one female, Hin Lap, December 8, 12, 1931. 



These three specimens do not agree with the descriptions of G. c. 

 crispifrons or G. c. annamensis but come nearer to the latter. The 

 only specimen of annamensis available for comparison has no white 

 on the throat, which is grayish with darker gray streaks. The three 

 birds taken by Dr. Smith have the throats white with broad black 

 streaks down the centers of the feathers, the white predominating 

 over the black, however; the sides of the throat and neck cinnamon- 

 buff; breast cinnamon with a grayish tinge on the jugulum and light 

 brownish olive on the flanks, each feather with a very narrow whitish 

 shaft-streak. 



The plate published by Delacour and Jabouille ^° is a redder brown 

 on the wing, rump, and tail than the Hin Lap specimens, the black 

 on the throat predominates over the white, there is no cinnamon- 

 bufT on the sides of throat, and the chest is dark gray. 



G. c. crispifrons is said to be a very variable bird and the eastern 

 representative would likely be also. Certainly the only specimen I 

 have handled from Annam is quite different from Delacour and 

 Jabouille's plate. These facts considered, the eastern Siamese 

 skins can be assigned to G. c. annamensis for the present. The range 

 then would be northern Annam, Tonkin, northern Laos, and eastern 

 Siam. 



i» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 291, 1924. 

 M Oiseaux I'Indochine Franfaise, vol. 3, pi. 46, 19.31. 



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