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Tan; Deignan ^^ says it is common in the ricefields at Chiengmai, 

 where de Schaiiensee also has taken it on all three of his trips. On 

 his last trip he took it also at Kengkoi and Sriracha.^' Robinson and 

 Kloss ^^ record it from Koh Lak in southwestern and Mamoh in 

 Peninsular Siam. This is as far in this direction as it has been 

 recorded to date. 



PASSER MONTANUS MALACCENSIS Dubois 



Passer viontanus malaccensis Dubois, Faune illustr^e des vert^br^s de la Belgique, 

 p. 574, 1887 (Malacca). 



One adult male and one adidt female, Yala, Patani, February 2, 

 1931; four adult males, two immature males, one adult female, and 

 three immature females, Bangkok, April 1, 1926, March 8, 1927, and 

 April 13-May 14, 1934; Nongkae, May 6, 1929. One set of four eggs, 

 Bangkok, February 3, 1929. 



The above adults agree fairly well wdth a pair from Java; except in 

 the Siamese specimens the breast is faintly streaked mth brown, 

 making it appear somewhat darker. 



This race occurs apparently all over Siam and down Peninsular 

 Siam to the Malay States, but it is rare outside of the larger cities. 



Deignan ^^ reports it common in Chiengmai and the callages but 

 rare in the open country. Barton ^* lists it from Raheng. 



The range outside of Siam seems a little uncertain. It is said to 

 occur at the base of the Himalayas from Kashmir to Assam, southern 

 China, Indo-China, Burma, Siam, and down the Malay Peninsula to 

 the Malay States, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the Philippines. 



Family FRINGILLIDAE: Sparrows, Finches, etc. 



MYCEROBAS MELANOXANTHUS (Hodgson) 



Coccothraustes melanoxanthus Hodgson, Asiat. Res., vol. 9, p. 150, 1836 (Nepal). 



One male and one female, Doi Hua Mot, August 12, 1934, 

 Dr. Smith gives the soft parts in the male as: Iris dark brown; 

 bill above dark blue wdth the tip dark brown, below sky blue; legs blue. 

 The above pair have been compared with a series from Yunnan and 

 western Szechwan. The male is not so deep a black as the Szechwan 

 specimens, but it is somewhat worn, and a Szechwan male taken at 

 about the same time approaches it; below it is paler yellow on the 

 breast and belly. The female is also slightly paler below than Chinese 

 specimens. Both specimens have shorter wings than the Yunnan- 

 Szechwan series. 



«« Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 152, 1931. 

 " Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 236, 1934. 

 »2 Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 360, 1924. 

 " Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 162, 1931. 

 w Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 1, p. 106, 1914. 



