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September 1, 1929, May 18 and October 3, 1930; one male and three 

 females, Tha Lo, Bandon, September 15-21, 1931. Dr. Smith 

 describes the iris as reddish brown, bill black, feet black or dusky blue. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected four males and three females in Trang 

 (Prahmon, April 3, 1896; Lay Song Hong, August 23-September 12, 

 1896; Kao Soi Dao, 1,000 feet, February 18, 1899); one female, 

 Tanjong Dungun, Trengganu, September 23, 1900; one male and one 

 female, Endau River, east coast of Johore, June 28, 30, 1901 ; one male, 

 Rumpin River, Pahang, June 26, 1902. He gives the soft parts as: 

 Iris pale brown, hair brown, reddish brown, or dark red; bill and feet 

 black. The specimen collected at Prahmon, April 3, is immature. 



Four of Dr. Smith's specimens are immature but of about adult 

 size or only slightly smaller. They were collected at Sichol, September 

 1; Tha Lo, September 15, 21, and Kao Soi Dao, January 17. 



The youngest specimen is a male taken at Tha Lo, September 21, 

 but it is of nearly adult size and resembles the adult above, but the 

 longer crest feathers are tipped with rusty, the frontal feathers with 

 w^hite shafts, the remiges, primary coverts, and greater wing coverts 

 are tipped with orange-cinnamon; the lowerparts are barred with 

 white. As the immature grows older, the breast becomes grayer and 

 the white bars become shaft streaks, either white or buffy. The 

 orange-cinnamon to the primary coverts and remiges persists for a 

 while after the bird has assumed apparent adult plumage. One of 

 Dr. Abbott's specimens, taken at Kao Soi Dao, February 18, is in 

 this plumage. 



The form ranges from southern Tenasserim throughout Peninsular 

 Siam to the Malay States. It seems to be a common bird throughout 

 Peninsular Siam, and Robinson and Kloss ^^ record it from Tasan; 

 Gyldenstolpe ^° from Hat Sanuk. The last is in southwestern Siam 

 and about the northern limit of its range. 



P. g. galericulatus (Cuvier), with a black back, is confined to 

 Java. 



Family STURNIDAE: Starlings 



GRACULA RELIGIOSA RELIGIOSA Linnaeus 



Gracula religiosa Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 108, 1758 (Asia-Java ""■). 



One male and one female, Bangnara, Patani, May 14, 1924; one 

 male and two females, Yala, Patani, January 29, 1931; one female, 

 Patalung, July 8, 1929: one female. Ban Peng Sao, Nakon Sritamarat, 

 July 27, 1928; one immature male and two females, Sichol, Bandon, 



«• Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 328, 1924. 

 '» Kuncl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Hanrtl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 42, 1916. 



" For the use of the name Oracula religiosa instead of Oracula jarana, see Oberholser, U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 Bull. 159, p. 91, 1932. 



