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pale 3'eIlo\vish white, witli tlie exception of two black bands across the 

 breast, the upper one entire, the lower one broken in the middle ; 

 greater and median wing-coverts black, with pale yellowish white tips, 

 forming two bands across the coverts ; quills brown, the second or third 

 to the seventh primaries with a patch of yellowish white on the outer 

 web near the base; all the piimaries and secondaries with a margin of 

 yellowish white on a portion of the outer web below the tip; middle 

 pair of tail-feathers the same colour as the back ; the next three pairs 

 d»rk brown, very narrowly tipped with white ; the two outer pairs 

 all white, except at the base, where they are brownish. 



Iris dark brown. Upper mandible dark brown, lower fleshy 

 white. Legs pinkish flesh. Claws pale horn-colour. 



Disiri'tution. Up to the present onlj' recorded from Northern, 

 Central and Peninsular Siam, but 1 shot a specimen on a forest path 

 near Sriracha, South-eastern Siam, in October 1914, and last year my 

 collector obtained one at Lat Bua Khao, in Eastern Siam, in September. 

 The only division of the country from which this bird has not yet been 

 definitely reported is, therefore, the Western one, but it is certain to 

 be found there also. 



TTahits, &c. This is also a winter visitor, and appears to be 

 rather rare everywhere, though widely distributed. In Bangkok I 

 have only obtained two specimens, both of which were shot in fruit gar- 

 dens — one on the east side and the other on the west side of the river. 

 The latter was on the ground when I first saw it, but on being disturb- 

 ed it Qdw on to a low branch of a tree. Its note was rather a weak 

 one of two syllables, clai-cha. The five specimens of which I have re- 

 cords were obtained between the middle of September and the middle 

 of April. 



57 (815). AnthuB richardi Vieill. BiclianVs Fipi't- 



Anthii.s liihiiili .itrii/lntus, Ovlilonstolpo ]!113, p. 42 ; id. 191G, p. 32. 

 Description. Length about 190 mm. (7.5 in.). Upper plumage 

 fulvous-brown, the feathers centred with blackish, except on the rump, 

 which is almost uniform ; wing-feathers dark brown, margined with 

 fulvous; outermo.st pair of tail-feathers almost entirely white, the 

 penultimate pair brown, with a long oblique white streak on the inner 

 web near the shaft — the outer web also being freijuently white; the 



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