BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 475 



ANTHUS HODGSONI Richmond 



Anthus hodgsoni Richmond, in Elackwelder, Research in China, vol. 1, pt. 2, 

 p. 493, 1907 (new name for Pipastes maculatus Jerdon, preoccupied; Nepal).. 



One male and one female, Cliiengmai, November 24, 25, 1928; 

 one male, Doi Nangka, November 20, 1930; one female, Khun Tan, 

 October 26, 1929; one male and one female, Mae Hong Sorn, January 

 9, 1933 ; one male, Muang Pai, December 27, 1932; one male, Nongkai, 

 February 18, 1929; three females, Sikeu, near Korat, February 22- 

 March 1, 1926; one male and one female, Pak Chong, February 10, 

 1925, November 27, 1929; one female, Hin Lap, Dccem.ber 10, 1931;. 

 two males and two females, Tha Chang, March 16-18, 1927; one male, 

 and one female, Sakon Nakon, March 13, 1929. 



The species has been divided into several races. I agree with 

 Bangs and Peters's ^^ conclusions that it is not advisable to maintain 

 them. Birds of this genus undergo great seasonable changes in 

 plumage. 



The species breeds on the Arctic coast of northeastern Siberia, the 

 high mountains of western China, and the Himalaj^as. It migrates 

 to India, Burma, Siam, Indo-China, the Malay Peninsula, and the 

 Philippines to winter. It has been recorded from all over Siam, but 

 in the Peninsula it apparently is only a straggler. 



Robinson and Kloss ^* record two specimens taken near Trong,. 

 Trang, December; later ^'^ they say that Williamson has four in his 

 collection from Nongkae, southwestern Siam, taken December and 

 January, and mention that Kedah Peak is the southernmost place at 

 which ihej have met it. Butler ^^ however, recorded one from the 

 Larut Hills, Perak. Deignan ^^ states that at Cliiengmai it is common 

 from October to April. 



ANTHUS CERVINUS (Pallas) 



Motacilla cervina Pallas, Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, vol. 1, p. 511, 1811 



(Camtschatka). 

 Anthus rufogularis Bbehm, Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte aller europaischen 



Vogel, vol. 2, p. 963, 1824 (Nubien and Deutschland). 



Three males and one female, Bangkok, December 27, 1924, January 

 15, 1925; December 13, 1926, January 14, 1927; one male and one 

 female, Noan Wat, February 14, 1929. 



This species breeds in northern Europe and northern Asia to 

 Kamchatka and migrates to Africa and to southern Asia as far as- 

 northern India, Siam, southern China, Indo-China, and the Philip- 

 pines; accidental in Alaska and Lower California. 



« Bull. Mils. Comp. Zool., vol. C8, p. 3G8, 1928. 



" Ibis, 1911, p. 74. 



» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 369, 1924. 



M Jouru. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc, vol. 32, p. 21, 1899. 



»' Journ. Kiam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 154, 1931. 



