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black and white, with some of the feathers showing maroon tips; 

 otherwise like the adult male. It was taken February 3. 



The two adult females are not alike. One has the back slightly 

 washed with maroon ; in the other this wasli is lacking, the back being 

 brownish black. In both the central tail feathers are dark and the 

 outer webs of the others are like the middle pair. In the adult male 

 the middle tail feathers are light acajou red, and only the outer web 

 of the outer tail feathers is blackish or has a trace of black at the tips 

 on the outer web, except in one specimen, where there is a black border 

 on the outer web toward the tip. Apparently the species is variable 

 individually. 



The form ranges in the Himalayas from the Sutlej Valley east to 

 eastern Assam, Burma, Tenasserim, Siam, Yunnan, Laos, Tonkin, 

 and northern Annam. 



It is a mountain species and has been taken so far only in northern 

 and western Siam, where it is resident, coming lower down on the 

 mountains in the cold season. A number of collectors have taken it 

 on Doi Sutep, where it appears to be not uncommon. Deignan ^^ 

 says it occurs there in summer between 3,500 and 5,500 feet, in winter 

 as low as 2,000 feet. Chasen and Kloss ^* record it from the Raheng 

 district at 2,500 feet. Lowe ^^ secured a specimen 35 miles east of 

 Umpang, at 2,400 feet, February 4. De Schauensee ^^ took quite a 

 series at Chiengmai and Chiengdao, between 3,000 and 5,000 feet, and 

 they were most frequently found at 4,000 feet, 



A closely related form, 0. t. robinsoni Delacour, occurs in southern 

 Annam, and two other forms are Imown, one in Formosa, the other 

 in Hainan. 



ORIOLUS MELLIANUS Stresemann 



Oriolus trailii mellianus Stresemann, Orn. Monatsb., vol. 30, p. 64, 1922 (Kwan- 

 tung, China). 



Three males and three females, Kao Sabap, 2,000-3,000 feet, January 

 6, 1930, November 8-26, 1933. 



As no description in English is laiown to me, I give a brief descrip- 

 tion of the two sexes: 



MaZe.— Head all around and wings black, with a greenish sheen; 

 upper and underparts silvery white, the feathers with a subterminal 

 arrow-shaped spot of deep hellebore red, mostly concealed; upper tail 

 coverts acajou red, with broad silvery white tips mostly concealing 

 the red; tail acajou red, lighter on the outer feathers and darker on the 

 central pair, each feather narrowly bordered on the outer web and at 

 the tip with silvery white, the central pair on both webs, the shafts 

 white; under tail coverts acajou red bordered at the tip with silvery 



»3 Journ. Siam. Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 151, 1931. 

 »* Journ. Siam. Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 7, p. 182, 1928. 

 " Ibis, 1933. p. 277. 

 «« Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 232, 1934. 



