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Dr. Siislikin ^^ has proposed di\admg the species into a number of 

 forms, but other ornithologists, \vith the exception of La Touche,^^ have 

 not followed him. My material is not sufficient to go into the question. 



LOCUSTELLA LANCEOLATA (Temminck) 



Sylvia lanceolata Temminck, Manuel d'ornithologie, ed. 2, vol. 4, p. 614, 1840 

 (Rlaiuz, error; Russia). 



One male, Koh Tao, off Bandon, December 29, 1926; one male, 

 Muek Lek, April 27, 1933. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected one m^ale off the coast near Sungei 

 Ujong, Straits of Malacca, November 5, 1900 : one male, 10 miles south 

 of Penang, Straits of Malacca, October 4, 1902 (both these birds flew, 

 aboard ship); and one unsexed, Victoria Point, Tenasserim, March 31, 

 1900. 



This species breeds in northeastern Siberia and migrates to southern 

 Cliina, Indo-Cliina, Siam, Burma, and the Malay States to winter. 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ records it from northern Siam. Deignan ^"^ took one 

 at Chiengmai in February. Robinson and KJoss ^^ took one in Trang 

 and later ^^ recorded a male from Namchut, Pakchan, February 26, 

 and a female from Tasan, Chumporn, March 26. Aagaard took a 

 female on Doi Sutep, 4,600 fect.^^ 



Probably this warbler is a more regular w-inter visitor than the few 

 winter records indicate. 



DUMETICOLA THORACICA THORACICA Blyth 



Dumeticola thoracica Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 14, p. 584, 1846 

 (Nepal). 



One male. Pang Meton (Doi Nangka), May 2, 1931. 



This specimen is molting. It is not so russet a brown above, the 

 superciliary is whiter, and below it is much less spotted on the jugulum 

 than specimens from Yunnan. The lower mandible is yellowish, 

 while in Yunnan birds tlie whole bill is black, but the latter are breed- 

 ing birds. I hardly believe this male is the same form as D. t. thoracica, 

 but it evidently belongs to this species and is placed here for the 

 present. 



Dr. Sushkin *° has revised the species, but without adequate material 

 it is difficult, if not impossible, to discriminate the forms. 



It breeds in the llimalaj^as from Kashmir to Bhutan and in the 

 mountains of Yunnan and Szechwan. Apparently it is nonmigratory. 



M Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 44-47, 1925. 



'* A handbook of the birds of eastern China, vol. 1, pt. 3, pp. 218-224, 1926. 



«5 Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 1, p. 167, 1915. 



'« Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 148, 1931. 



" Ibis, 1911, p. 66. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, 1924, p. 318. 



" Chasen and Kloss, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 245 ,1932. 



« Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 38, no. 1, pp. 40-44, 1925. 



