200 MR. E. C. STUART BAKER ON 
? Hup Bon, 8. E, Siam, 15. 7. 15. 
3 Krabin, C. Siam, 11. 11. 15. 
All three of these birds appear to be true maculicollis and are 
identical with specimens from the Malay Peninsula. The dark upper 
parts and the black bises of the breast feathers are very pronounced. 
55. ORTHOTOMUS RUFICEPS. 
Kdela rujiceps, Less, Traité d’Orn, p. 309 (18351). 
¢ Maprit, P. Siam, 29. 12. 15. 
9 Maprit, P. Siam, 2. 1. 16. 
oth birds are quite typical specimens. 
56. CISTICOLA CURSITANS CURSITANS. 
Sylvia cisticola, Temm, Man, d’Orn, 2nd ed, i, p, 228 (1820). 
@ d juv. Bangkok, 18. 6. and 11. 7. 15. 
2 Samkok, C. Siam, 20. 6. 15. 
3S 2 Sansep, Bangkok, 3. 7. 15. 
d juv. Muak Lek, E. Siam, 25. 8. 15. 
$ 2 ¢ juv. 2 juv. Samkok, C. Siam, 29-31. 8. 15. 
26 2 Samkok, C. Siam, 16-17. 3. 16. 
The series of Fantail Warblers obtained by Mr. Herbert’s col- 
lector appears to be all typical cursitans, but an immense amount of 
work still remains to be done, both in regard to working out the geo- 
graphical races of this little bird and also its nomenclature. Such a 
work unfortunately entails far more time than can be devoted to it 
under present circumstances, so | leave them provisionally under this 
name. 
They agree with other specimens trom Northern Peninsular 
Siam and Burma, Tenasserim and Western Burma. 
57. CISTICOLA EXILIS’ VOLITANS. 
Calamanthella volitans, Swinh. Journ. N. China As. Soe. p, 226 (1859). 
¢ 2 2 Bangkok, 10. 7 and 29. 8. 15. 
256 2 2 Samkok, ©. Siam, 31. 8. 15. 
The male, killed on the 29th August, isin female plumage. 
These birds, like the last, | name only provisionally as volitans, 
a species described originally from Formosa, and from which these 
birds only differ in the two cocks having rather more ‘richly coloured 
heads. A very large series of males in breeding plumage for each 
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