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Pericrocotus flammeus elegans (McClelland) 



Phoenicornis elegans McClelland, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pt. 7, 

 No. 82, March 1840, p. 156 (Assam State, India; type locality- 

 restricted to ''the neighborhood of Sadiya," Mishmi Hills Tri- 

 bal District, by Deignan, Auk, vol. 63, 1946, p. 524, and cor- 

 rected to Shillong, by Sdlim Ali and Ripley, Jo urn. Bombay 

 Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 48, No. 1, December 1948, p. 19). 

 Range: A visitor from the North, reported on migration or in winter 

 from the northern plateau (Chiang Mai, Lamphun). 



Pericrocotus flammeus semiruber Whistler and Kinnear 



Pericrocotus speciosus semiruber Whistler and Kinnear, Jo urn. 

 Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 36, No. 2, Apr. 15, 1933, pp. 340, 

 341 (Sankrametta, South Visakhapatnam District, Andhra 

 State, India). 

 Pericrocotus flammeus suchitrae Deignan, Auk, vol. 63, No. 4, 

 Oct. 25, 1946, p. 530 (Doi Khun Tan [lat. 18°30' N., long. 

 99°20' E.], Lamphun Province, Thailand). 

 Range: The northern and eastern plateaus and the southeastern 

 provinces. 



Pericrocotus flammeus flammifer Hume 



[Pericrocotus] jlammijer Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. 3, No. 4, 

 May 1875, p. 321, footnote ([region of] Pak Chan [Estuary], 

 Mergui District, Tenasserim Division, Burma). 

 Range: The southwestern and peninsular provinces from southern 

 Tak to the extreme South. 



Family CHLOROPSEIDAE 



Genus AEGITHINA VieiUot 



Aegithina viridissima viridissima (Bonaparte) 



J[ora]. viridissima "Temm. Mus. Lugd." Bonaparte, Conspectus 



generum avium, tom. 1, pars 2, Feb. 3, 1851, p. 397 ("ex Sumatr. 



Borneo"; type locality inferentially restricted to Sumatra, by 



Oberholser, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, No. 7, 1912, p. 10). 



Range: The peninsular provinces from the Isthmus of Kra to the 



extreme South. 



Aegithina tiphia philipi Oustalet 



j^ githina Philipi Oustolet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. [Paris], ser. 2, tome 



8, fasc. 2, 1886, p. 285 (Hue [lat. 16°29' N., long. 107°34' E.], 



Hue Province, Annam). 



Range: The northern plateau (on the West south to Nakhon Sawan) 



and the northern portion of the eastern plateau (along the Mae Khong 



as far as Ubon). 



