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and has a narrower yellow rump band. I have not examined a female 

 of A. wrayi. 



Eight males measm-e: Wing, 49-51.5 (50.4); tail, 49-67 (53.9); culmen, 

 16-18 (16.7) mm. Five females: Wing, 43-47.5 (45.4); tail, 30-35.5 

 (32); culmen, 15-16.5 (15.7) mm. There is great variation in the 

 length of the tail in the males. In some specimens it is long, drawn 

 out, and very attenuated at the tip for about half its length; in others 

 it is shorter and not so attenuated at the end, but broader. I rather 

 think the latter are younger males. 



AETHOPYGA NIPALENSIS ANGKANENSIS Riley 



Aethopyga nipalensis angkanensis Riley, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 42, 

 p. 162, 1929 (Doi Angka, Siam). 



Two males and one female, Doi Angka, 8,000, 8,400 feet, December 

 5 and 6, 1928. 



This form is similar to A. n. nipalensis, but the chest is grenadine 

 red unstreaked. 



As the description may not be accessible to Siamese ornithologists, 

 it is given as follows: Head, nape, hindneck, throat, and ear coverts 

 a shining invisible green ; a line from bill on sides of face dusky ; a band 

 on chest below green of throat lemon chrome; chest and breast grena- 

 dine red; belly sulphine yellow; under tail coverts apricot yellow with 

 a slight reddish tinge, sides lemon chrome; back and running up as a 

 band to sides of neck morocco red; rump lemon-chrome; tail blackish, 

 the middle feathers, except at tip, and the outer feathers basally on 

 the outer web a shining invisible green, two outer feathers with yellow- 

 ish citrine tips; tail coverts like central tail feathers; wing coverts 

 outwardly and scapulars olive-citrine, the wing coverts tinged with 

 reddish; remiges fuscous, all, except the outer, bordered on the outer 

 web with olive-citrine, the inner feathers tinged with english red. 

 Type: Wing, 52.5; tail, 59.5; culmen, 18 mm. 



The second male is like the type. Wing, 54.5; tail, 65.5; culmen, 

 19 mm. 



The female (wing, 47.5; tail, 43, culmen, 16 mm) is like the same sex 

 of nipalensis, but the head and throat are tinged with grajnsh and the 

 secondaries are more deeply colored (near orange citrine instead of 

 citrine) on the outer web. 



Dr. Smith secured only the three specimens at the type locality. 

 It is evidently a high mountain form and will probably also be found 

 on some of the high mountains of Burma. 



It is a different looking race from nipalensis and could even rank as 

 a species, except that it evidently belongs to the same form group. 



Mr. Deignan informs me that he also secured specimens on Doi 

 Angka. 



