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pileum and liindneck without a superciliary, becoming a light olive- 

 brown on the back; lowerparts are grayish white, with a broad neutral 

 gray band across the chest. The Chiengmai female is light buffy 

 brown on the pileum, superciliary and cheeks light gray; back darker 

 than the pileum, with a rufescent tinge; lowerparts wliitish, flanks 

 cream-buff. The male from Khun Tan is darker on the pileum and 

 more rufescent on the back than the above female amd more of a 

 gray on the throat. The two females at the bottom of the list are 

 whiter below than the Chiengmai female, and there is only a supra- 

 loral streak, very narrow and ill-defined, in the April bird. 



An adult male from the Yangtze Gorge, Yunnan, collected May 17, 

 has a much longer tail than the adult male from Pang Meton. In 

 plumage the two are similar. The Pang Meton male measures: 

 Wing, 44; tail, 42 mm. The Yunnan male: Wing, 49; tail, 51 mm. 

 Both specimens are without a superciliary. The females are con- 

 siderably smaller than the males. 



The species ranges pretty much all over India, Assam, Burma, 

 Tenasserim, Siam proper, Yunnan, and Indo-China. 



Deignan ^^ reports it common in the brush along ricefields at 

 Chiengmai. De Schauensee *^ took specimens at Chiengdao, Chieng- 

 mai, and Sriracha, and says that it is found up to 5,000 feet in north- 

 ern Siam. 



FRANKLINIA KUFESCENS RUFESCENS (BIyth) 



Prinia rufescens Blyth, Journ. Aslat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 16, p. 456, 1S47 (Arracan). 

 Prinia beavani Walden, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, p. 55 (Schouay Goon, 

 Sahvin River, Tenasserim). 



Two adult males and one immature male, Bangnara, Patani, July 13, 

 14, 1926; one male, Bukit, Patani, January 26, 1931; one immature 

 male, Kao Luang, Nakon Sritamarat, July 17, 1928; two males, 

 Sriracha, April 19, 20, 1934; one immature male and one female, Nong 

 Mong, Muang Krabin, August 23, 1925; one female, Sakeo, near 

 Krabin, May 2, 1928; one female, Tha Chang, March 2, 1927; four 

 males, Pak Chong, May 7, 18, 1925, April 29 and May 9, 1926; one 

 male, Lat Bua Kao, August 6, 1929; one unsexed and one immature, 

 Doi Hua Mot, August 29, 1934; two males, Khun Tan, 4,500 feet, 

 October 18, 1929 and February 25, 1932. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected one adult male, three adult females, 

 and one immature female in Trang (Prahmon, Februar}' 24, 1896; 

 Lay Song Hong, November 23, 1896; Trang, January 20-February 12, 

 1897). He describes the soft parts as: Iris pale yellowish brown; 

 bill black, pale fleshy beneath; feet pale brownish fleshy, claws pale 

 horn brown. 



" Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 149, 1931. 

 «» Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pluladelphia, vol. 86, p. 229, 1934. 



