232 Mr. C. Boden Kloss on Birds [Ibis, 



Calcutta specimens, but, like the blue colour which has 

 largely disappeared, may have faded with age. 



^143. Garrulax moniliger niouhoti Sharpe, 



Garrulax monhoti Sharpe, Cat. Birds, vii. 1883, p. 443 ; 

 Williamson, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, ii. 19 IG, p. 59. 



2 c? . Lat Bua Kao. 

 ■ Iris ochre-yellow ; bill black with grey tip ; feet fleshy- 

 grey. 



T. L. 290, 275 ; T. 122, 118 ; W. 129, 123 ; Ta. 39, 39 ; 

 B. f. g. 30, 30 ; cdmen 28, 27. 



G. mouhoti was based by Sharpe on birds from Cambodia : 

 the typical locality of G. moniliger Hodgs, is Nepal. Sharpe, 

 with specimens before him from Nepal to north-west Assam 

 and others from Pegu and Tounghoo, recorded all {to7n. cit. 

 supra) as moniliger, though noting the differences in colour 

 of the tail-tips : north-western birds white tips, south- 

 eastern birds buff tips *. A further difference has been 

 pointed out by Gates (Faun. Brit. Ind., Birds, i. p. 81), who 

 states that in Himalayan birds the ear-coverts are black 

 with a white patch in the middle, while Burmese birds have 

 pure white ear-coverts. It is evident that the south-eastern 

 bii'ds comprise a good subspecies which requires recognition. 



Sharpe, while noting the characters of the southern Bur- 

 mese birds and recording them as moniliger, immediately 

 afterwards recognised three Cambodian birds as a distinct 

 form and described it under the name of Garrulax mouhoti; 

 and until a good series is available to prove the differences, 

 if any, between Cambodian birds and others ranging thence 

 to Lower Burma, I propose to regard all as belonging to 

 one race and call it Garrulax moniliger mouhoti. 



The description of mouhoti applies perfectly to my two 

 birds, except that I do not see the " indistinct stripe or 

 shade of grey becoming blacker over the eye'^ which should 

 separate the white eyebrow from the crown. In the larger 



* These tips are not the accompaniment of fresh plumage only ; my 

 birds are moulting and the tips of the old ragged feathers are just as 

 buflFj' as those newly appearing. 



