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COPSYCHUS SAULARIS SAULARIS (Linnaeus) 



Gracula saularis Linnaeus, Sj'stema naturae, ed. 10, p. 109, 1758 (Bengal). 



Five males and three females, Bangkok, January 19 and October 

 29, 1925, April 3, May 29, and October 27, 1926, and May 12, 1932; 

 one female, Bung Borapet, June 28, 1932; one male, Koh Chang, 

 January 11, 1926; one male and one female, Ban Nam Kien, Nan, 

 April 22, 1930; one male, Koh Lak, June 15, 1933. 



One of the males (no. 308697), Bangkok, May 29, has the base of 

 the second outer tail feather black, the black reaching nearly halfway 

 down on the third and two-thirds down on the fourth. It is a breed- 

 ing bird and could very well be placed with the next form (erimelas) , 

 but as all the others taken at this locality are saularis I prefer for the 

 present to regard it as an intermediate; the Koh Chang male is more 

 or less intermediate also. The male from Koh Lak is in worn plum- 

 age; the exposed portions of the three outer tail feathers are white, 

 the fourth with a black border on the inner web. 



The range of this form extends from India through Burma to Siam 

 proper, but not Peninsular Siam. 



Female specimens from southern China, Tonkin, and Laos, are 

 somewhat lighter both above and below than Siamese specimens. 

 There appears to be no difference in size. 



Ten males from southern China (6), Tonkin (1), and Laos (3) 

 measure: Wing, 96-104 (100); tail, 85.5-96.5 (90.6); culmen, 18.5-20 

 (19.2) mm. Eight males from India (1) and Siam (7): Wing, 97-103 

 (99.6); tail, 86-96 (89.8); culmen, 17-20.5 (19.2) mm. The females 

 measure smaller, but the series of this sex at my command is not large, 

 and so measurements are not given. 



COPSYCHUS SAULARIS ERIMELAS Oberholser 



Copsychus saularis erimelas Oberholser, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 76, no. 6, 



p. 1, 1923 (Kankarii, Houndraw Branch, Tenasserim). 

 Copsychus saularis haliblectus Oberholser, ihid., p. 2 (Domel Island, Mergui 



Archipelago). 



One female, Patalung, July 9, 1929; one 3"0ung male almost adult, 

 Tha Lo, Bandon, September 17, 1931. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following specimens in the Malay 

 Peninsula or vicinity: Four males and one female, Trang (Telibon 

 Island, February 27; Prahmon, March 2, April 1; Lay Song Hong, 

 September 26, all in 1896); three males and one female, Tenasserim 

 (Tanjong Badak, January 12, 1900, and December 11, 1903; Victoria 

 Point, March 31, 1900); one female, Domel Island, Mergui Archi- 

 peligo; three males, two females, and two spotted young, Singapore 

 Island, May 12,25, 1899, October 15, 29, 1899; one male and one 

 female, Kemamun River and Packa River, Trengganu, September 25 

 and October 2, 1900. 



Dr. Smith's male from Bandon has almost acquired the fully adult 



