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geograptiic. In the females the iipperparts also vary from a steely 

 black to a dark gray with a rusty fringe to the feathers, the latter 

 mostly winter-taken birds, and this rusty fringe wears off or becomes 

 reduced as the breeding season approaches. The types in the two 

 Tenasserim forms cited above are not, in my opinion, fully adult 

 birds. 



Seventeen males from eastern and southeastern Siam measure: 

 Wing, 88.5-96 (92.6); tail, 152-193 (173.3); culmen, 15-17 (16) mm. 

 Ten males from southwestern Siam: Wing, 90-95 (92.4); tail, 137-178 

 (156); culmen, 14.5-17 (16) mm. Three males from Tenasserim and 

 one from the Mergui Archipelago: Whig, 91-101 (95.7); tail, 155-174 

 (168); culmen, 16-18 (16.9) mm. 



The range of the present form M'ould extend then from southern 

 Tenasserim to southwestern, central, eastern, and southeastern Siam 

 and eastward through southern Indo-China to southern Annam. 



Dr. Smith's series shows the range of this form in Siam very well, 

 except for the islands. Robinson ^" records it from Koh Chang, 

 Koh Klum, Koh Kut, Koh Kra, and Klong Menao, southeastern 

 Siam. 



KITTACINCLA MALABARICA TRICOLOR (VielUot) 



Turdus tricolor Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., ed. 2, vol. 20, p. 291, 1818 

 (islands of the South Seas, pi. 114 of Levaillant; type fixed by Robinson 

 and Kloss^^; West Java). 



Kittacincla malabnrica mallopercna Obbrholser, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 

 76, no. 6, p. 5, 1923 (Sing Kep Island, southeastern Sumatra). 



Kittacincla malabarica abbotti Oberholser, ibid., p. 5 (Banka). 



Three adult males, one immature male, and one female, Bangnara, 

 Patani, May 22, 30, 1924, July 6-15, 1926; one male, Yala, Patani, 

 February 2, 1931; one male, Singora, July 2, 1929; tvv^o males, Kao 

 Soi Dao, Trang, December 23, 28, 1933; one female, Kao Chong, 

 Trang, August 28, 1933; four males, Kao Luang, Nakon Sritamarat 

 (one at 2,000 feet), July 21, 1928, October 2, 6, 1930; two adult males 

 and three immature males, Sichol, Bandon, September 5, 1929; May 

 15, 24, 1930; one male, Tha Lo, Bandon, September 13, 1931; one 

 male and one female, Koh Pangan, Bandon, Jidy 22, 30, 1931; one 

 male, Koh Samui, Bandon, August 7, 1931. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected five males in Trang (Telibon Island, 

 February 25, 28, 1896; Lay Song Hong, November 28, 1896; Trang, 

 January 28 and February 3, 1897); two males, Singapore Island, 

 May 16, 1899; one male, Pulo Ijangkawi, December 3, 1899, one 

 female, Pulo Adang, Butang Islands, December 15, 1899; one female, 

 Pulo Tinggi, east coast of Johore, August 3, 1901. He gives the soft 

 parts as: Iris dark brown; 1)111 black; feet pale fleshy pink. 



" Ibis, 1916, p. 763. 



'• Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siain. vol. 6, p. 314, 1924. 



