THE BIROS OF 6ANGK0K. 3t3 



lower blackish, remainder bluisli slate. Mouth bhck* (flesh-colour 

 — Gates). Legs dark plumbeous. Claws dark horn-colour. 



Disirihution. So for recorded onl)' fi'om Northern, Southern 

 and Peninsular Siani, but I have also obtained it in Bangkok, Central 

 Siani, and at Muak-lek, in the, Eistern division of the country. 



Habits, &e. 'My only Bangkok specimen was purchased from 

 a bird-catcher here, who informed ma positivelj' that he had trapped 

 it in this place, and that he got single birds now and then. I see no 

 reason to doubt this statement, though neither I nor my collectors 

 have come across the bird in Bangkok. The fact is, it is rather rare 

 everywhere, and only single specimens are usually obtained. 1 have 

 personally met with the bird twice only — once at Sriracha, S. E. Siam, 

 and the second time at ifuak-lek, in the Eastern division of the King- 

 dom. It is easily distinguished from the other Flower-peckers by its 

 streaked lower parts and its yellow under tail-coverts. 



* G7 (922). Piprisoma modestum (Hume). Jlumeii 



Floioer-j)rcl't'r. 



Plprinnma modesfiim, Robinson, .and Kluss, Ibis 1911, p. 79 i GyUlcn- 



stolpo 1016, p. 37. 

 rijiii.<oina moili'.stiiin innikMum, Robinson, Il>is 191.5, p. 756. 



Siamese, wn «^ ViOltJ (Nok si-p'hlai). 



Description. Length about 102 mm. (4 in.). Upper plumage 

 dusk}' olive-green, lighter on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings 

 and tail dark brown, edged with olive-green, and the tail feathers 

 tipped white — very iiarrowh- in the centre, and increasingly so on 

 the outer feathers ; lores whitish ; chin and centre of throat wliite ; 

 sides of the head ami neck ashy brown, in some specimens with a faint 

 green tinge; lower plumage whitirsh to sullied 3'ellowish white, streaked 

 with greenish brown. 



L'is pale brick-red. Upper mandible and tip of lower dark 

 horn-colour, remainder of bill plumbeous, ilouth orange. Legs dark 

 slate-colour. Claws horn-colour. 



Bistrihution. In the papers quoted above, this bird is recorded 

 from Northern, South-eastern and Peninsular Siam, but I have 

 also obtained it in Bangkok and at lluak-lek, in the Central and 



* Adult fcniiilc, 28tii Doccinbor, Srii-iicliii, S E. Siani. 

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