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MALACORNIS RUFIFRONS INUOCHINENSIS (Robinson and Kloss) 



Horizillas rufifrons indochinensis Robinson and Kloss, Journ. Federated Malay 

 States Mus., vol. 10, p. 205, 1921 (Trangbom, Cochinchina) . 



One male, Nong Mong, Miiang Krabin, August 27, 1925; one 

 female, Sakeo, near Krabin, May 4, 1928; one male, Nong Khor, 

 near Sriracha, September 24, 1925; two males, one female, and one 

 unsexed, Pak Chong, eastern Siam, May 8 and 14, 1925; two males 

 and one female, Lam Klong Lang, Pak Chong, June 10-11, 1925; one 

 male, Tha Chang, near Pak Chong, May 18, 1927; one female, Ban 

 Tarn Dam, southeastern Siam, no date; one male and one female, 

 Kao Bantad, Krat, December 21, 1929; two males and one female, 

 Aranya, July 16, 1930; two males and two females, Hupbon, Novem- 

 ber 5, 1931; four males and three females, Hin Lap, eastern Siam, 

 December 9-11, 1931. 



This series is from eastern and southeastern Siam. The only 

 specimen of M. r. riijifrons from Java examined is larger; the tail and 

 tail coverts are a brighter and more rufous brown; the piieum is more 

 tawny; and there are some other differences. The considerable series 

 from Siam seems to fit the description of the Cambodian form, though 

 I have no specimens for comparison. 



The form ranges all over French Indo-China, with the exception of 

 Tonkin and northern Laos, and westward into southeastern and 

 eastern Siam. 



Robinson ^^ recorded it from Klong Menao; and Kloss *^ from Lat 

 Bua Kao and Satahip, near Cape Liant, the latter under the name 

 Setaria lepidocephala. 



ERYTHROCICHLA BICOLOR BICOLOR (Lesson) 



Brachypteryx bicolor Lesson, Rev. Zool., p. 138, 1839 (Sumatra). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took a male and female, Lay Song Hong, Trang, 

 August 21 and November 11, 1896. He describes the soft parts as: 

 Iris pale brown; upper mandible dark brown, lower mandible fleshy, 

 pale leaden at tip; feet pale fleshy brown. 



Robinson and Kloss ^^ report it from Tasan, Chumporn, Peninsular 

 Siam; they had previously ^* reported it as widely distributed and com- 

 monest in the central part of the Peninsula. 



The form extends from the southern end of the Peninsula north to 

 southern Tenasserim, Sumatra, and Banka. 



While tlie only specimen examined from Sumatra, a female differs 

 somewhat from the female from Trang, the differences may be attrib- 

 uted to individual variations. A male from Banka Island is some- 



•' Ibis, 1915, p. 748. 



" Ibis, 1918. p. 203. 



« Journ. N.-xt. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 290, 1924. 



« Ibis, 1911, p. 60. 



