BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 339 



Robinson and Kloss ^^ record specimens from Tung Pran, Takua- 

 tung, and Tasan, Clmmporn. This is as far north as I have seen 

 any records for Peninsular Siam. 



MALACORNIS AFFINIS AFFINIS (Blyth) 



Trichastoma affine Bltth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 11, 1842, p. 795 (Singa- 

 pore) . 



Four males and one female, and one unsexed, Bangnara, Patani, 

 July 14-19, 1926. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected a male on the Rumpin River, Pahang, 

 May 30, 1902 He gives the soft parts as bill leaden, brown above; 

 feet leaden. 



The species seems to be confined to the southern end of the Malay 

 Peninsula and so far has been taken in Peninsular Siam only in the 

 Province of Patani. The species has been recorded from Sumatra 

 and Borneo, but specimens I have examined from these islands seem 

 to be somewhat smaller and with more of a tawny wash above. 



The present species differs from magnirostris in having the pileum 

 blacldsh. 



MALACORNIS CINEREA CINEREA (Eyton) 



Malacopteron cinereus Eyton, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1839, p. 103 (Malaya). 



One male, Kao Luang, Nakon Sritamarat, July 19, 1928; one male, 

 Sichol, Bandon, August 28, 1929; two males, Kao Soi Dao, Trang^ 

 December 24, 1933, January 8, 1934. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following: Seven males and six 

 females in Trang (Prahmon, April 8, 1896; Lay Song Hong, August 

 19-November 9, 1896; Trang, January 25-February 7, 1897; Kao 

 Nok Ram, 1,000 feet, January 4, 1899; Kao Soi Dao, 1,000 feet, 

 February 8, 1899); two females, the Dindings, Straits of Malacca, 

 April 13, 1900; one male, Rumpin River, Pahang, June 22, 1902;^ 

 one male, Dungun River, Trengganu, September 22, 1900. He gives 

 the soft parts as: Iris brown, grayish brov/n, or dark red; upper man- 

 dible brownish black, lower mandible leaden, fleshy at base; feet 

 pale fleshy purple; eyelids pale yellowish green. 



This is a smaller species than AI. magna but much like it in color 

 above, but without the dusky streaks on the throat and chest. Both 

 species have rusty foreheads and black napes. 



The form ranges from the southern end of the Malay Peninsula 

 north through Peninsular Siam as far as Bandon. 



Williamson ^^ records it from Patani; Robinson and Kloss ^° from 

 Kao Ram, 1,200 feet, and Kao Luang, 2,500 feet, Nakon Sritamarat. 



"Journ. Nr\t. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 293, 1924. 



"Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 17, 1918. 



"Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 11, p. 62, 1923. 



