BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 529 



This form is slightly less heavily streaked on the breast and the 

 upper tail coverts are brown rather than black when compared with 

 Malay Peninsula birds. 



The four males and three females measure: Wing, 48-50 (49.4); 

 tail, 40-42.5 (41.3); culmen, 11-11.5 (11.2) mm. 



This form ranges in the Himalayan footliills from Garhwal to east- 

 ern Assam, eastern Bengal, northern Burma, and Siam proper; to the 

 eastward it probably extends into Indo-China. 



It has not been possible to compare these with Nepalese material, 

 but all the birds from northern and central Siam seem to be the same 

 and to differ somewhat from Malaj'' Peninsula specimens. The male 

 from Sriracha is somewhat darker above, with darker upper tail 

 coverts, but it seems to be nearer the northern form than to that of 

 the Malay Peninsula. 



Herbert ^^ reports it breeding in the fruit gardens near Bangkok 

 from the early part of the rains to December and describes the nest 

 and eggs. 



MUNIA STRIATA SUBSQUAMICOLLIS (Baker) 



Uroloncha striata subsquaniicollis Baker, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 45, p. 59, 



1925 (Bankasoon, Tenasserim). 

 Uroloncha aculicauda lepidota Oberholser, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 



16, p. 520, 1926 (Tyching, Trang). 



One male, Bukit, Patani, January 26, 1931; one unsexed. Ban 

 Kiriwong, Nakon Sritamarat, July 12, 1928. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected three males, three females, and one 

 unsexed in Trang (Tyching, May 23-June 25, 1896; near base of Kao 

 Norn Plu, March 9, 1897; Trang, March 8, 1897). He gives the soft 

 parts as: Iris dark red; upper mandible black, lower mandible leaden 

 or leaden blue; feet leaden or dull brown. 



This series is slightly darker above, more streaked on the breast, 

 and the upper tail coverts are darker than specimens from northern 

 Siam, M. s. acuticauda. These differences are average; specimens 

 can be picked out of both series that almost match. The form is 

 not a strongly marked one. Apparently there is little or no difference 

 in size. Ten specimens from Peninsular Siam measure: Wing, 

 47.5-52 (49.7); tail, 36-42 (40); culmen, 10.5-12 (11). 



Dr. Abbott took a nest and three eggs May 31 and a nest and five 

 eggs June 25, 1896; both at Tyching, Trang, 



This form ranges from southwestern Siam (Koh Lak) and southern 

 Tenasserim south through Peninsular Siam to the Malay States. 



The United States National Museum has a male specimen of this 

 form from Koh Lak collected by C. Boden Kloss. Kobinson and 

 Kloss ^® record it from Tapli, Pakchan, and Tasan, Chumporn; 



»» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 121, 1923. 

 " Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 363, 1924. 



