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8. GARRULAX MONILIGER MOUHOTI. 
Garrulas mouhoti, Sharpe, Cat, B., B. M, vii. p, 443 (1883), 
Garrulax moniliger leucotis, Baker, Bull, BLO.C. 1917, No. eexxvii. p. 8. 
1 not sexed, Hup Bon, 8. E. Siam, 18. 7.15. 
$ Chan Teuk, E. Siam, 13. 8. 15. 
3 9 Krabin, ©. Siam, 9. 11. 15. 
¢ 2 Krabin, ©. Siam, 11. 21 1S. 
Kloss has recently (‘“ Ibis” 1918, p. 252) rightly placed, in 
this subspecies, two specimens obtained by: him at Lat Bua Kao. 
When first examining the specimens of Garrulaa moniliger in this 
collection, the three Cambodian specimens named mouhoti by Sharpe 
could not be found, and as Mr. Herbert’s birds did not agree with 
Sharpe’s description, yet were quite different to Indian birds, I unfor- 
tunately named them leucotis, which now becomes a synonym of 
mouhoti. 
There are still, however, three. races of moniliger, as the 
Indian and Northern Burmese bird is quite distinct from the South 
Burman and Malayan bird, whilst this again is absolutely different 
from that of Siam and the countries further Hast. As these other 
races may possibly be also found in Siam, the one in North-West 
and the other in South-West Siam, I briefly describe them here. 
Garrulax moniliger moniliger, which is tound in India and 
Northern Burma, has white tips to the tail feithers and black ear- 
coverts with a small white central patch. 
(i. m. fuscata ( Baker, Bull. B.O.C. 1918, No. cexxxiii, p. 64. ) 
has dusky rufous tips to the tail feathers, and the ear-coverts almost 
wholly white with black tips. This and the last two sub-species are 
both rather pale coloured birds, fuscata being a trifle darker and redder 
than moniliger, though the difference is but slight. 
This form is found in Southern Burma and Malaya. 
G. m. mouhoti is distinguishable at a glance from both the two 
last by its much darker, richer plumage, both above and below. The 
ear-coverts are as in fuscata, but the tails are even more broadly and 
darkly tipped than in that bird. 
In nidification all three races resemble one another, making 
the same bulky cup of grass, leaves, bents and other odds and ends, 
lined with fine roots. In the Northern forms the full complement of 
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