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Robinson from Koh Samui and Koh Pennan off Bandon and from the 

 opposite mainland." 



MUNIA STRIATA SWINHOEI (Cabanis) 



Uroloncha swinhoei Cabanis, Joiirn. fiir Orn., 1882, p. 462 (China). 



Uroloncha squamicollis Sharpe, Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, 



vol. 13, p. 359, 1890 (China, Formosa, and Hainan; type from Chingchow, 



Szechwan ^^). 



One female, Muek Lek, April 19, 1933. 



This specimen agrees fairly well with specimens from Szechwan, 

 China, and evidently belongs to this form, which is very variable 

 according to season. M. s. swinhoei differs principally from acuticauda 

 in having the chest feathers a much lighter brown, with broader and 

 lighter edges. Gyldenstolpe ^^ refers a male from Khun Tan, April 

 29, and a female from Bang Hue Pong, May 27, to this form. These 

 specimens require reexamination, as his description does not agree 

 with the average type of swinhoei, which averages lighter not darker 

 than acuticauda, but, as remarked above, the former is very variable. 

 As a matter of fact, this Muek Lek female is a little darker above and 

 about the head than the average swinhoei, but the specimen is nearer 

 it than it is to the two other Siamese races. Whether it is a migrant, 

 resident, or only a stray to Siam is not known. 



This form is resident in southern China, south of the Yangtze, and 

 not known to migrate. 



MUNIA PUNCTULATA TOPELA Swinhoe 



Munia topda Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 380 (AmojO- 



Three adult males, two immature males, six adult females, and 

 one immature female, Bangkok, Ma}'' 3 and September 25, 1924, 

 October 29, 1925, May 28, Juno 2, 22, September 7, and October 25, 

 1926, and May 3, 1934; one adult male and one immature female, 

 Chiengmai, November 24, 25, 1928. 



No Chinese specimens are available for comparison, but I have two 

 males from southern Annam. Specimens from this region are as- 

 signed to M. p. topela by Delacour and Jabouille *° and as the Bangkok 

 series agrees fairly well with them, this name is used. 



The form ranges practically all over Siam j^roper and as far to the 

 southwest as Koh Lak, beyond which I have seen no records. In the 

 southeast it has been recorded from Sriracha.** Deignan *^ says that 



•' Journ. Federated Msilay States Mus., vol. 5, p. 151, 1915. 

 w Oberholser, Journ. W.ishington Acad. Sci., vol. 16. p. 521, 1926. 

 «» Kuns-l. Svenska Vot.-Akad. Ilandl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 28, 1916. 

 " Oiseaux I'lndochine Franfaise, vol. 4, p. 230, 1931. 



*i Williamson, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 2, p. 194, 1917; de Schauensoe, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Philadelphia, vol. 80, p. 235, 1934. 

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



