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D. ignipectum has an extensive range, from the western Himalayas 

 east through western and southern China to Fulden, south through 

 all of French Indo-China to southern Annam, Siam, Peninsular Siam, 

 and the Malay States, 



Count Gyldenstolpe ^* says it is extremely rare and hitherto only 

 recorded from Patalung in Peninsular and from Khun Tan in northern 

 Siam. Deignan " reports it common on Doi Sutep from 5,000 to 

 5,500 feet, and less so down to 4,000 feet. De Schauensee ^* found it 

 on the summit of the same mountain and occasionally as low as 3,500 

 feet. Robinson ^^ says that it is found from Perak to southern Selan- 

 gor and Pahang and is strictly confined to the zone above 3,500 feet. 

 He doubts the locaUty Patalung first given by Bonhote, as the altitude 

 is too low. 



DICAEUM BECCARn CAMBODIANUM Delacour and Jabouille 



Dicaeum beccarii cambodianuyn Delacouk and Jabouille, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 



vol. 48, p. 135, 1928 (Bokor, southern Cambodia). 

 Dicaeum umbralile Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 43, p. 191, 1930 



(Kao Kuap, near Krat, southeastern Siam). 



One male, Kao Kuap, Kj-at, December 24, 1929. 



The above specimen is the type of D. umbratile named upon the 

 supposition that D. beccarii cambodianum did not have the black line 

 down the side of the chest at the shoulder, but M. Delacour has 

 written me that the Cambodian race has such a line and that the bird 

 named by me is undoubtedly the same. While I am placing my 

 name in synonymy for the present, I call the attention of authors to 

 certain discrepancies between the plate published by Delacour and 

 Jabouille ^° and my type. The plate is much greener above and has a 

 whiter throat than the type of umbratile; in fact, the latter has not a 

 white throat at all, but cream-bufF. It may or may not be the same. 

 Only a comparison of specimens of the two can decide definitely, 

 but as the two type locaUties are in the same type of country, I now 

 feel that probably M. Delacour is correct. 



Dicaeum beccarii Robinson and Kloss was described in 1916 from 

 Korinchi, Sumatra, but M. Delacour ^' believes a specimen from 

 Gunong Tahan, Pahang, belongs to this species. 



Robinson and Kloss ^^ have published a plate of D. beccarii, and it 

 is a much greener-backed and a browner-breasted bird than the type 

 of D. umbratile, it lacks the black streak on the side of the chest at the 

 shoulder, and the cheeks are brownish rather than fuscous. The 



'« Ibis, 1920, p. 466. 



" Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Puppl., vol. 8, p. 156, 1931. 



" Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 243, 1934. 



" The birds of the Malay Peninsula, vol. 2, p. 277, 1928. 



"> Oiseaux I'lndochine Fran^aise, vol. 3, pi. 34, 1931. 



•' L'Oiseau, new ser., vol. 2, p. 438, 1932. 



"Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, pt. 2, pi. 7, 1918. 



