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IXOS CINEKEUS CINEREUS (Blyth) 



lole cinerea Bltth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 14, p. 573, 1845 (Malacca). 



One adult iinsexed, Kao Luang, 3,000 feet, Nakon Sritamarat, July 

 14, 1928. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected five males and three females in Trang 

 (Kao Norn Plu, 2,000-3,000 feet, February 20-26, 1897; Kao Soi Dao, 

 2,000 feet, February 11, 1899; and Trang, January 21 and 28, 1899). 

 He gives the soft parts as: Iris dark red (male) or dark brown (female); 

 bill black; feet dark fleshy brown. 



This form occurs from Nakon Sritamarat south to Johore and 

 Sumatra. Ogilvie-Grant ^^ records it from Patani; Baker" from 

 Tung Song; Robinson and Kloss from Trang ^^ and Kao Nok Ram 

 and Kao Luang, 2,000 feet, Nakon Sritamarat.^^ 



ALCUBUS STRIATUS (Blyth) 



Trichophorus striatus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 11, p. 184, 1842 

 (Himalaj'as, probably Darjeeling). 



One male, Doi Angka, 8,000 feet, December 6, 1928; one male and 

 one female, Doi Nangka, April 27 and November 10, 1930; one 

 female. Pang Meton (Doi Nangka), May 1, 1931; one male, Doi Hua 

 Mot, September 1, 1934. 



Only two old unsexed specimens have been available for comparison, 

 one from Nepal and one from Darjeeling. From these the Siamese 

 specimens differ in the color of the crest. In the Indian birds it is 

 olive-brown, while in those from Siam it is buffy olive. In the 

 Siamese birds the lower back, rump, and wings are more greenish 

 yellow and the edges of the feathers of the chest are grayish rather 

 than brownish. There are other slight differences, but whether these 

 would hold in a larger and better series of the Indian bird is problem- 

 atical. 



Deignan ^° reports it uncommon on Doi Sutep at 5,500 feet, and 

 later Aagaard secured it at the same place and elevation.^' De 

 Schauensee reports it an uncommon bird in northern Siam, inhabiting 

 the summits of the mountains.^^ 



The range of the species is from the Himalayas of Nepal to Assam 

 and south through Burma to Manipur, Tenasserim, northern Siam, 

 Yunnan, and northern Laos and northwest Tonkin. It is a mountain 

 bird of high elevations, not descending below 4,000 feet in India even 

 at the cold season. 



" Fasciculi Malayenses, pt. 3, p. 88, 1905. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 194, 1919. 



" Ibis, 19U, p. 56. 



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



w Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 140, 1931. 



•' Chasen and Kloss, Journ. Slam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 243, 1932. 



M Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 202, 1934. 



