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CHLOROPSIS CYANOPOGON SEPTENTRIONALIS Robinson and Kloss 



Chloropsis cyanopogon seplentrionalis Robinson and Kloss, Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 See. Siain, vol. 3, p. 107, 1918 (Nong Kok, Gliirbi, Peninsular Siam). 



Two females, Pa taking, July 18, 1929; three males, Tlia Lo, 

 Bandon, September 18-27, 1931; one female, Sichol, Bandon, May 

 19, 1930. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected two males at Prahmon, Trang, Febru- 

 ary 22 and March 23, 1896, and one male, near Chong, Trang, Jan- 

 uary 24, 1897. He gives the soft parts as: Iris dark brown; bill 

 black; feet plumbeous. 



The above series of males differs from two males of C. c. cyanopogon 

 from Sumatra in being somewhat smaller and in having the foreheads 

 tinged with yellow and the black throat patch bordered below with 

 yellow. 



Six males from Peninsular Siam measure: Wing, 80-83 (80.7); 

 culmen, 15-17 (15.9 mm). Two males from Sumatra: Wing, 81, 85; 

 culmen 17, 17 mm. 



This form ranges from southern Tenasserim south through Penin- 

 sular Siam to about Kedah. To the north Robinson and Kloss ^^ 

 record it from Tapli, Pakchan, and Tasan, Chumporn. 



CRINIGER TEPHROGENYS TEPHROGENYS ( Jardine and Selby) 



Trichophorus tephrogenys Jardine and Selby, Illustrations of ornithology, vol. 3, 

 pt. 9, pi. 127, 1833 (supposed to be India; type fixed by Hartert "as Malacca). 



Three females, Kao Soi Dao, Trang, December 24, 28, 1933, 

 January 1, 1934; two females and one unsexed, Kao Chong, Trang, 

 August 27, September 8, 1933. 



Dr. Abbott collected eight males and two females in Trang (Lay 

 Song Hong, August 31 and September 5, 1896, January 1, 1897; 

 Chong, January 23, 1897; Kao Nok Ram, 1,000 feet, January 4, 1899; 

 Trang, January 3-February 7, 1897); one male and one female, 

 Rumpin River, Paliang, May 23 and June 21, 1902. He gives the 

 soft parts as: Iris brown, pale brown, reddish brown or brownish red; 

 upper mandible dark brown or dull black, lower mandible leaden; 

 feet pale brownish fleshy. 



The range of this form is from southern Tenasserim south through 

 Peninsular Siam to Singapore. Ogilvie-Grant " records it from 

 Patani; Robinson and Kloss ^* from Ronpibun and Kao Ram, 1,200 

 feet, Nakon Sritamarat; later ^* they say it has often been confused 

 with ochraceus in the past but that there is no occasion to do so at the 

 present day if correctly named material is compared. 



M Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 202, 1924. 



" Nov. Zool., vol. 9. 1902, p. 558. 



>' Fasciculi Malayenses, pt. 3. p. 86, 1905. 



»« Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 11, p. 61, 1923, 



«• Journ. Nat Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 268, 1924. 



