220 ON NEW RACES OF PAL/EORNIS EUPATRIA. 



Length, 491 ; tall, 272 ; wing, 203 : tarsus, 17 ; bill : — oulmen, 

 35; heiglit of maxilla at base, 19; leiigtii of edge from base to tip, 

 26.5 mm. 



The neck-ring, which scarcelj' joins the black of throat, is a 

 beautiful "geranium pink", whereas that oi avensif, in the examjiles 

 examined, is " strawberrj' pink": and the wing-patch is dull crimson 

 (" neutral red "). 



Females lack the neck-ring and black ihroat, have verj- little 

 yellow on the lower throat and possess smaller wing-patches than the 

 males, but their irides, bills and feet are of the same colour. They seem 

 but little smaller, and an adult from the tj'pical localitj' measures: — 



Length, 4G0; tail, 260; wing, 199; tarsus, 18 ; bill, 32,19 

 and 25 mm. 



The wing-patches of the Sukotliai and Bangkok (?)* females are 

 much paler than the others, but this is a matter on which more evidence 

 is desirable. 



Speaking in a sj'stematic sense, and not venhii'ing to indicate the 

 original home of the species, the Siamese birds seem to be going back 

 to r. e. eiipatrit. As with so many species that are found in the Eastern 

 Himalayas, through India to Ceylon and through Indo-China 

 to Malaya, the Southern forms, though developing geographically 

 along entirely different lines, eventually attain very much the same 

 status as regards reduced size. The dimensions of P. e. siamensia 

 are practically those of the Ceylon bird, but it lacks any trace of a 

 black line between bill ami eye, has the occiput suffused with blue-grey, 

 the lower throat yellow, the lesser under wing-coverts pale bluish green 

 and tlie feet yellowish, not dark. 



The Saigon specimen recorded as P. e. eupntrin by Salvadorl 

 in the Catalogue of Birds was in all probability a member of the 

 present race, as also the six examples from Cambodia, cited as in- 

 dolninimnim by Oustalet who states ( Nouv. Arch, du Mas. (-1), 1, p. 

 223): — " \jn de ces Oiseax, un male, oftVe sur la nuqne, comme un 

 specimen appartenant au Mu.sce britannique et provenant egalement du 

 Camborlge, une teinte grise au-dessus du collier rose ; mais cette 

 teiute ne reinonte pas sur les joues comme chez le /'. nipulensis." 



* Till' liii'd i-; H'lt foiuid ill H:ni'.;knk. I'^ds. 



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