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SO sharply defined. In the immatures taken in August the streaks on 

 the chest are broader and more in the nature of spots than strealcs. 

 The immature is Hghter below even than the breeding female. This 

 may account for some of the light-colored winter specimens. 



Family ARTAMIDAE: Wood-swallows 



ARTAMUS FUSCUS Vieillot 



Artamus fuscus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., ed. 2, vol. 17, p. 297, 1817 

 (Bengal)- 



Two females, Bangkok, September 14 and June 21, 1923; three 

 males, Nongkae, May 5, 1929; one female, Sakon Nakon, March 16, 

 1929. 



The female, taken at Bangkok, June 21, is immature. It is of 

 about adult size. Similar to the adult but blackish above with wood- 

 brown tips to the feathers of the back, the remiges tipped vntli drab, 

 the gray tips to the tail feathers broader, the lower parts with dusky. 



The species ranges from India east to western China, Burma, 

 Indo-China, and Siom. In Siam it occurs pretty much all over the 

 country, except the Peninsular portion. Koh Lak in the southwest 

 is as fnr in this direction as it has been recorded. 



Gyldenstol])e •'° records it from Chiengsen and Koh Lak. Herbert " 

 found it breeding in colonies at Bansakai and Paklat, central Siam, 

 from the middle of April to the middle of June and describes the nest 

 and eggs. Deignan ^- states that it is common on the plain at Chieng- 

 mai throughout the year. There are a few other records for the 

 central and western part of the country. 



Family LANIIDAE: Shrikes 



LANIUS COLLURIOIDES Leeaon 



Lanius collurioides Lesson, Voyage aux Indes-Orientales . . . B^langer, p. 250, 



1831 (Pegu). 

 Lanius hypohucus siajnensis Gyldenstolpe, Orn. Monatsb., 1916, p. 28 (Koh 



Lak, Siam). 

 Lanius collurioides griseicapiHus Delacour, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 47, p. 13, 



1926 (Xieng-Khouang, Laos). 



One male. Bo Ploi, Kanburi, September 9, 1928; one male, Lom- 

 sak, February 16, 1934; one male, Chiengmai, November 26, 1928; 

 one female, Pak Chong, February 8, 1925. Dr. Smith gives the soft 

 parts as: Iris dark brown; bill black; legs dusky blue. 



The male from Bo Ploi is almost pure white below, the Chiengmai 

 male light ochraceous-bufT, and the Lomsak male intermediate. The 



•• Kiingl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. ITandl., vol. 56. no. 2, p. 43, 1016. 



«i Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 109, 1923. 



M Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 147, 1931. 



