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SAXICOLA CAPRATA BURMANICA Baker 



Saxicola caprata hurinanica Baker, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 43, p. 19, 1923 

 (Pegu). 



Three males and one female, Chomtong, November 30 and Decem- 

 ber 10, 1928; one male, Chiengmai, November 27, 1928; one male, 

 Chiengdao, January 28, 1932; two males, Muang Pai, December 26, 

 27, 1932; one male, Mae Hong Sorn, January- 7, 1933. 



This form is fomid over the whole of Burma, Yunnan, Assam, south 

 of the Brahmaputra, northern Siam, Cambodia, Cochinchina, and 

 Laos. 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ records it from Khun Tan and Chienghai; Deignan ^^ 

 from Chiengmai; Lowe ^^ from Umpaug. De Schauensee *^ lists it 

 from Tung Sio and Chiengmai. So far as I am aware, it has been 

 taken thus far only in northern Siam. The species is tropical, and 

 besides other forms in India there are several found in the larger 

 islands or groups of islands to the southeast of Asia. 



SAXICOLA TORQUATA STEJNEGERI (Parrot) 



Praticola rubicola stejnegeri Parrot, Verb. Orn. Ges. Bayern, vol. 8, p. 124, 1908 

 (northern Japan). 



Three males and two females, Bangkok, October 19, 23, 1924, 

 October 23, 28, 1925, November 3, 1926; one female, Korat, February 

 14, 1929; one male, Nong Preng, January 29, 1927; one male and one 

 female, Bua Yai, February 15, 1929; one female, Pak Chong, Novem- 

 ber 26, 1929; one male, Nan, April 16, 1930. 



This form breeds in eastern Siberia and northern Japan and 

 migrates through eastern China in fall to winter in southern China, 

 Tonkin, Annam, Cochinchina, Cambodia, Laos, Siam, Burma, and 

 Assam. 



This is the common winter stonechat of Siam proper, and it has 

 been obtained in Peninsular Siam as far south as Namchiik, Pakchan, 

 and there are examples from Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, in the Raffles 

 Museum.^' 



RHODOPHILA FERREA HARINGTONl (Hartcrt) 



Oreicola ferrea haringloni Hartert, Die Vogel der palaarktischen Fauna, vol. \, 

 Heft 6, p. 711, 1910 (Lienkiang near Foochow, China). 



Three males and one female, Doi Angka, 2,000-4,000 feet, Decem- 

 ber 2-8, 1928, November 20, 1930; two males and one female, Khun 

 Tan Mountains, 3,000-4,200 feet, November 19-22, 1928; two males 

 and tAvo females, Khun Tan, October 19-28, 1929, February 23, 1932; 

 two males and one female, Doi Sutep, 3,000 feet to summit, December 



<> Kunsl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 66, no. 2, p. 51, 1916. 



" Journ. Slam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 141, 1931. 



«< Ibis, 1933, p. 269. 



«» Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 8fi, p 208, 1934. 



" Robinson and Kloss, Journ. Xat. Uist. See. Siam, vol. 5, p. 315, 1924. 



