448 BULLETIN 17 2, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



CYOHNIS HAINANA (Ogilvie-Grant) 



Siphia hainana Ogilvie-Grant, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 10, p. 361, 1900 

 (Five Finger Mountains, Hainan). 



One female, Nong Klhor, November 22, 1924; one male and one 

 female, Pak Chong, November 15, 18, 1925; one female, Tba Chang, 

 near Pak Chong, November 23, 1925; two males and two females, 

 Kao Seming, Krat, October 15, 16, 1928, January 1, 1930; three males, 

 Kao Sabap, October 25-November 1, 1933; one female, Ivliun Tan, 

 4,000 feet, February 19, 1932; one male and one female, Khun Tan 

 Mountains, 3,000 feet, May 10, 1933; one immature male (marked 

 female), Nakon Sritamarat, March 13, 1929. 



Dr. W. I-.. Abbott took a single female at Bok Pyin, Tenasserim, 

 February 11, 1900. 



The males of this form are easily discriminated from the other 

 species of the genus. They are a dark tj^rian blue above and on the 

 throat and chest; breast, belly, and under tail coverts white; forehead, 

 superciliaries, and bend of wing are a lighter, brighter blue than the 

 back; lores black. The female is brown above, the tail and tail 

 coverts rusty; throat and chest ochraceous-orange ; breast, belly, and 

 under tail coverts white. 



Four males from Siam measure: Wing, 70-72 (71); tail, 56-59 

 (57.5); culmen, 11.5-12 (11.9) mm. Six females: Wing, 63-67 (65.4); 

 tail, 50-55.5 (51.7); culmen, 11-12 (11.2) mm. 



The female collected by Dr. Abbott in Tenasserim and one of Dr. 

 Smith's females from Kao Seming (no. 311181) have one or more 

 feathers in the upper tail coverts and the outer margins of the re trices 

 tinged with blue. I presume they are really immature males. 



The range of this form is South China (Kwangtung, Kwangsi, 

 Hainan), Tonkin, Laos, North Annam, Cambodia, Siam, Tenasserim, 

 and Peninsular Siam as far south as Nakon Sritamarat and Trang. 



Besides the localities in Siam where Dr. Smith took specimens, it 

 has been taken by Count Gyldenstolpe at Pak Koh (northern Siam) 

 and by Kloss at Lat Bua Kao and Klong Menao, in eastern Siam.*^ 

 De Schauensee *^ took specimens at Nakon Nayok and Chiengmai. 



Dr. Smith's specimen from Nakon Sritamarat is an immature. 

 There is a blue band across the forehead; the head is storm gray; the 

 back is bufly brown with a grayish cast; the upper tail coverts and 

 tail are snuff brown; lores and ring around the eye clay color; throat 

 and chest buffy mixed with clay color in patches, with two or three 

 dark blue feathers appearing on the chest; wings fuscous, the flight 

 feathers lightly bordered outwardly with snuff brown; belly and under 

 tail coverts white. Wing, 67.5; culmen, 11.5 mm. This is quite 

 different from any female in the series, and I presume it is an immature 



" Ibis, 1920, p. 577. 



*• Proe. Acad. Nat. Scl. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 214, 1934. 



