BIRDS FROM SI AM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 491 



The species breeds in eastern Siberia and northern China and win- 

 ters in southern China, Burma, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula. 



Baker ^^ records it from Krabin; Robinson and Kloss ^° state that 

 Williamson informed them that C. J. Aagaard collected a specimen 

 at Bangnara, Patani, November 2, 1916. 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ observed two in a garden at Klong Toi, near Bang- 

 kok, but does not give the date. Evidently it is not a common winter 

 visitor. 



AMPEUCEPS CORONATUS BIyth 



Ampeliceps coronatus Blyth Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 11, p. 194, 1842 

 (Teuasserim) . 



Three adult males, three adult females, and one immature female, 

 Nong Khor, near Sriracha, March 21, 1926, February 8, 1927; one 

 adult male, Nong Nam Kiew, February 15, 1927. 



The immature female taken February 8 is nearly adult size. It is 

 like the adult except that there are only a few yellow feathers on the 

 throat and crown and the speculum of the wing is a lighter color. 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ took a male at Pak Koh, March 26, and reports it 

 fairly common in northern Siam. Baker ^* reports it from Hinlap, 

 eastern Siam, and Klong Bang Lai, Peninsular Siam; Lowe ^^ from 30 

 miles southeast of Umpang; Robinson and Kloss from Trang ^^ as well 

 as Ghirbi "; de Schauensee ^* from Pak Chong. 



The species ranges from eastern Bengal to Assam, Burma, Tenas- 

 serim, and Siam, south in the Peninsula to Trang and east to southern 

 Laos, Cochinchina, and Annam. 



GRACUPICA NIGRICOLUS fPaykull) 



Gracula nigricollis Paykull, Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 28, p. 

 291, pi. 9, 1807 (China). 



Two males, Pran, June 3, 1928, April 2, 1931 ; two males. Ban Pong, 

 September 17, 1929; two adult males, two immature males, four adult 

 females, and one immature female, Bangkok, July 22 and October 

 11, 13, 1924, September 11-14, October 31, and December 21, 1925; 

 two males and one female, Muang Kanburi, September 10, 11, 1928; 

 one male, Tha Chang, November 23, 1925. One egg cut from the 

 oviduct, Bangkok, April 3, 1926. 



The immature specimens are brown above with a light brown head 

 and throat. Then the back begins to become dark; next the hind- 



n Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 2U, 1919. 



«« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 356, 1924. 



•' Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 26, 1916. 



" Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 24, 1916. 



'< Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 211, 1919. 



" Ibis, 1933, p. 276. 



Mlliis, 1911, p. 68. 



»' Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 117, 1919. 



•• Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 234, 1934. 



