THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 153 



242. Cacomantis merulinus querulus Heine. 



Cacoviantis quendus, Heiiit*, Joiini. f. Oiii. 18(53, p. 352 (Nepal ; 



Bui-nia). 

 Cacomantis threnodes, A., p. 158 (Mei-gui to Bankasoou) ; B., p. 53 



Junk Seylon) ; C. ii, j). 112 (Tena.s.serim and Malay Peninsula). 

 Cacomantis merulinus, Shelley, Cat. liird.s B. M. xix, 1891, p. 268 



(Merj,nxi to liankasoon) ; E., p. 105 (Patani) ; F., p. 40 (Trang); 



H., p. 14(5 (Koh Sanuii). 

 Cacomantis merulinus querulus, L, p. 101 (Koli Lak) : K., p. 98 



(Koh Lak) ; L., p. 98 (Junk Seylon). 



c?. Mainok, Pakchan, Peninsular Siaui, 28 February 1919 

 (No. 4315). 



dad, 2 iinni. Tapli, Pakchan, Peninsular Siani, 9 March 1919 

 (Nos 4321, 4449). 



d inini. Tasan, Chumporn, Peninsular Siam, 17 March 1919 

 (No. 4658). 



" Iris crimson or reddish ; bill black, gape yellow ; feet ochre- 

 ous or yellow." 



Total length '5, 21(j, 225, 212 ; 9, 215 ; wing rJ, 103, 109, 107 ; 

 9, 104; tail cT, 115, 119, 113; 9, 107: tarsus d, 16, 18, 16; 9, 16; 

 bill from gape d, 23, 22.5, 23; 9, 24 mm. 



The paler southern race, G. in. tJcrenodes Cab. and Heine, of 

 the Malay States, has not yet been met with in Peninsular Siam. 

 243. Cacomantis sepulcralis sepulcralis (Mtiller). 



Cuculus sepidcralis, S. Miiller, Verb. Nat. Gesch. Land-en Volkenk, 



1839-4i, p. 177, note (Java and Sumatra). 

 Cacomantis sepidchralis sepulchral is, J., p. 155 (Koh Muk ; Trang). 



d" ad., 9 inim. Tapli, Pakchan, Peninsular Siam, 4 March 

 1919 (Nos. 4416, 4423). 



" Iris brown, orbital ring yellow ; bill black, reddish at base ; 

 feet yellow, claws dark." 



, Total length 6, 225; 9, 240; wing 6, 107; 9, 112; tail d, 

 125 ; 9, 127 ; tarsus d, 15 ; 9, 16 ; bill from gape d, 23.5 ; 9, 25 mm. 



Two examples were obtained on Khao Luang, Nakawn Sri 

 Tamarat, in March 1922. 



I. (iyldenstoliw, KuiikI. Sv. Vet. Akad. Hundl. M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam. iii, 1919. 



56, No. '2, 1916. (tjrxt iNirtt. 



J. llotiinson, .Journ. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917.. Baker, .lourn. X. H. Soc. Siam. iii. 1919. 



K. Kloss. Iliis, 1918. - (scediid paii,), 



L. Uobiijson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, M. I. Baker, Joiu'ii, X. 11. Soc. Siam, iv, 1920. 



iii, 1919. (third part). 



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