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snuff brown, witli rather light fuscous shaft stripes, these broader 

 basallj^, but not reacliing to the ends of the feathers, though on the 

 long middle rectrices broadening into a sub terminal spot; wings 

 fuscous, the quills and coverts all edged with the mouse gray of back; 

 inner margins of secondaries, and of all but terminal portions of 

 primaries, vinaceous-bufF; cheeks and auriculars Ught buff; sides of 

 neck like the back; intervening postauricular region, together with 

 most of the lower parts, dull wliite washed with light buff, least so on 

 middle of upper throat and middle of lower breast and of upper abdo- 

 men, the sides also washed with grayish; sides of jugulum heavily, its 

 middle portion sparingly and obscurely, streaked with dark mouse 

 gray; flanks and crissum dull pinkish buff; tliighs between cinnamon 

 and orange-cinnamon; edge of wing warm buff; lining of wing dull 

 wliite tinged with light pinkish cinnamon and marked on median 

 posterior portion with a conspicuous spot of dull orange-cinnamon. 



Measurements. — Seven males: Wing, 46-50.5 (average, 48.5) mm.; 

 tail, 38-41.5 (40.2); exposed culmen, 15-16.5 (15.6); height of bill 

 at base, 3-4 (3.5); tarsus, 20.5-22 (21.2); middle toe without claw, 

 10.5-11.5 (10.7). 



One female: Wing, 42.5; tail, 36; exposed culmen, 15; height of 

 bill at base, 3.5; tarsus, 21.2; middle toe without claw, 9. 



Geographic distribution. — Sumatra to the Malay Peninsula and 

 southern Tenasserim. 



This race is smaller, as well as darker and less clearly gray above, 

 than any of the other forms of the species. 



The Juvenal plumage differs from that of the adult in lacking the 

 chestnut crown, this part being uniform in color with the remainder 

 of the upper surface; in having the cervix, back, scapulars, rump, 

 and upper tail coverts more rufescent (less purely grayish) ; tail with 

 much greater areas of dark brown or blacldsh; wing edgings much 

 more rufescent or olivaceous; lower surface suffused with j-ellowish 

 instead of buft'y; and jugulum much less distinctly or not at all 

 streaked with dusky. 



Family MOTACILLIDAE 



•BUDYTES FLAVUS TAIVANUS Swinhoe 



Budytes taivana Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 31, p. 334, Oct., 1863. 

 ("Formosa"; based on Budytes flava var. rayi Swinhoe, variety from 

 Formosa, Ibis, ser. 1, vol. 5, no. 19, p. 310, July, 1863.) 



Birds belonging presumably to this form have been recorded by 

 Doctor Hartert^* as MotaciUa flava from both Bunguran and Sirhassen 

 Islands. . , 



Nov. Zool., vol. 1, no. 2, p. 475, Apr. 16, 1894. 



