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bulila iliipi.'riect ulx-IU on llie win^-coVL-rts ; i|ulll.s Ijruwu wit.ii rufuiis 

 .spots on the outer, and paler ones on tlie inner webs ; tail with narrow 

 \v;vv3' black cross bands : sides of head, throat, foreneck and upjicr 

 breast pale rut'ous, with dark narrow cross-bands ; a dark patch on tlie 

 ear-coverts; lower breast and abdomen whifisli, with ari'ow-Iiead shaped 

 (lark marks. 



iris ha/.el. Bill brown. Legs and feet grc-nish bruwn (Oates). 



Distrilndiijii. The only specimen so far recorded from Siani 

 is tliafc listed by Gyldenstolpe as having been obtained by Jili'. 

 Eiuil Kisenhofer in Nortli:^rn Siam. L subsequently procured ont^ 

 ( d ) in Bangkok, on iflh April I'Jlti, sitting on a small tree near 

 the raiUvay crossing over Klong Toi. Unfortunate!}' I omitted to 

 note the colours ot the sofc parts, the particulai's of whicli, as 

 given above, are as recorded by Bluiford. The bird is said by Blanforil 

 to bd a winter visitor to the |)lains of India and i3iirnia, but is evidently 

 a rare one to Siam. it is not reported from Fi-encii Indo-C'hina by 

 Oustalet, nor does it appear in lijbinson's llaud-list of the Jjirds of 

 the Malay I'eninsula (I'JIO). 



OA'yjAV.'— ZYGODA.CXYLI. 

 Family L'Al'ITOM l>. I!— Biivhi^ia. 

 7'-i. Xantholaeina haematocephala (!'. L. S. .MiUI.; 

 T//C Crinisoii-ln-eastv<l Bnrii<l. 



A. 



Siamese, unPinQ-3 — Nok ti-t'hong. 



Xiinlhiiltii iiiii lull iiiatiiii jilidld, L'lhuil'iird, l'"auii. Iliil. liiili:i. liiiiis, iii 

 (IS95). |i, !18 : Os'hvi.'-tinuit. Fasc. Malay. Zch.I.. iii ^liiO.ii), ji. 

 101 : Rol)iiis<m aiul Klnss, Ibis, 1911, ji, 44: (Jaiidiicr. Juurii. N. 

 11. S. Siaui, i, p. 149 (TJlo) : Itobinsnii, .bunn. V. Jl. S, Miis., v, 

 p. DSCigiS) : Gvlilciistclpe 1910. p. 101 : Hobiiis.Mi, .loiuii. V. M. 

 S. Mus., vii, p. li;5 { 1917). 



J)e!icrqitiou. Length up to 171 nun. ((i.75 in.). J^ores black ; 

 forehead and sinciput crimson ; a black band across the vertex e-Ntendin" 

 down each side of the head behind the eye tn the malar region : occi- 

 put and sides of neck greyisii green ; remainder of upjier parts yellow- 

 ish green : (juills blackisii, the primaries ( except tlie first two ) 

 narrowly, the remaining wing-feathers more broadly, edged on the outer 

 webs with green, and all the (|uills with jialer edges on the inner 

 webs csi)ecially towards their )>ases ; a broad supei-ciliuin and ;i still 



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