BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 481 



Siam and few for Peninsular Siam; in fact, Williamson's ^* record from 

 Bangnara, Patani, stood as the sole one for Siam for a long while. 



LANIUS TIGRINUS Drapiez 



Lanius tigrinus Duapiez, Diet. Class. Hist. Nat., vol. 13, p. 523, 1828 (Java). 



One adult male, Prae, April 27, 1930; one immature male, Bangkok, 

 September 24, 1930; one immature male, Tha Lo, Bandon, September 

 24, 1931; one immature female, Bukit, Patani, January 26, 1931. 

 Dr. Smith gives the color of the soft parts in the adult male as: Iris 

 dark brown ; bill and feet bluish slate. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected one immature male and two immature 

 females. Lay Song Hong, Trang, September 6-24, 1896. 



This species breeds in Japan, eastern Siberia, and northern China 

 to the Yangtze Valley and migrates to south China, Indo-China, 

 Siam, Tenasserim, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo 

 to winter. 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ took a male at Khun Tan, May 4; Robinson^® 

 records two specimens from Pulo Terutau, December 21, 26. 



Family PRIONOPIDAE: Wood-shrikes 



TEPHRODORNIS GULARIS PELVICA (Hodgson) 



Tentheca pelvica Hodgson, Indian Rev., vol. 1, p. 447, 1837 (Nepal). 

 Tephrodornis pelvicus vernayi Kinnear, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 44, p. 102, 1924 

 (Umpang, Siam). 



One male, Doi Sutep, February 3, 1932; one female, Doi Nangka, 

 November 17, 1930; one female. Pang Meton (Doi Nangka), May 5, 

 1931 ; one male and three females, Doi Hua Mot, August 23-September 

 2, 1934; four males and four females, Khun Tan, 3,000-4,000 feet, 

 August 26-September 5, 1930, February 14-29, 1932; one male and 

 one female, Khun Tan Mountains, 2,000-3,000 feet, November 23, 

 1928, May 11, 1933; one female, Ta Fang, January 18, 1933; one 

 female, Khonka Valley, January 19, 1933; one male, Ban Han, Udon, 

 March 17, 1929; two males and two females, Pak Chong, December 

 16, 1926, March 13, 1927; one male. Lam Klong Lang, Pak Chong, 

 June 4, 1925 ; one male, Sakeo, near Krabin, May 2, 1928. 



This series is a lighter gray on the head, with the mantle washed 

 with brownish, and considerably larger than the form found in 

 Peninsular Siam. I have had only one old female specimen of pelvica 

 from Sikkim for comparison. It is browner above than any female 

 from Siam before me but in measurements agrees quite closely. It 

 may be that the northern Siamese bird is not pelvica at all, in which 



»< Journ. Nat. Hist. Boc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 20, 1918, 



" Kuns?!. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 58, no. 2, p. 39, 1916. 



••Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 184, 1917. 



