BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 415 



ZOOTHERA MARGINATA MARGINATA BIyth 



Zoothera marginata Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 16, p. 141, 1847(ArakanX 



One male, Kao Ban Tad, Krat, December 22, 1929; one female, 

 Kao Kuap, Krat, December 26, 1929; one female, Kao Sabap, Novem- 

 ber 14, 1933. 



Kloss has taken tliis bird at Klong Yai, southeastern Siam, in 

 winter, and Chasen and Kloss ®^ have recorded it from the Raheng 

 District, western Siam. Deignan ^^ records one from Doi Siitep, 

 3,500 feet, August 29, 1931, and four from Doi Angka, 4,600-4,800 

 feet, September 5, 7, 1935. 



This race occurs from Sikkim to eastern Assam, Burma, Tenasserim, 

 Yunnan, and Siam. It is a mountain bird and apparently has not 

 been recorded from Peninsular Siam. 



A smaller race, Z. m. parva, has been described from Tonkin. A 

 specimen from Dalat, southern Annam, in the United States National 

 Museum apparently belongs to it. This specimen is a female and is 

 smaller and more reddish above than in the females from Siam. 



MONTICOLA RUFIVENTRIS (Jardine and Selby) 



Petrochicla rufivciUris Jardine and Selby, Illustrations of ornithology, vol. 3 

 pt. 9, pi. 129, 1833 (Himalayan District). 



Three males, Khun Tan Mountains, 4,000 feet, November 23, 1928; 

 one female, Doi Nangka, November 4, 1930. 



This bird breeds in southern Ciiina in the mountains from Fulden 

 to Yunnan and in the Himalayas from Burma and Assam west to 

 Chamba, and south to northern Siam, Laos, and Tonkin. 



In Siam there are few records. De Schauensee ^^ took four speci- 

 mens on Doi Sutep, 4,500-5,500 feet, in December; and on his third 

 expedition ^ took a male at Chiengdao, 4,600 feet, January 11. Deig- 

 nan ^ says it occurs on Doi Sutep in the cold weather. Tliis implies 

 that it is only a winter resident. 



MONTICOLA SOLITARIA PHILIPPENSIS (Muller) 



Turdus pldli'ppenniis MUlleh, Natursystems, Suppl., p. 145, 177G (Pliilippine 

 Islands). 



One female, Koh Chang, January 8, 1926. 



The only reason for assigning this female to the above race is tliat 

 it is paler than the females of pandoo and does not agree with them, 

 but does agree with some specimens of philippensis. After examining 

 the females of both forms, however, I have not yet found any satis- 

 factory characters for separating this sex. The males present no 



'7 Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 7, p. 178, 1928. 

 "Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 10, pp. 65, 113, 1935-36. 

 " Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 81, p. 543, 1930. 

 I Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 211, 1934. 

 • Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 143, 1931. 



