98 



" Male, iris hazel, bill black, feet lavender in front, pinkish 

 behind." 



A nest was found on our way up Kao Nawng at about 700 feet 

 on 10th June, 1913. It was placed in a small sapling about six or 

 seven feet above the ground and consisted of a globular mass of dead 

 leaves and fibre about the size of a man's head. It contained three 

 eggs. They are broad blunt ovals in shape, moderately glossy, 

 white and thickly spotted especially towards the broader end with 

 dark purplish brown spots and streaks, some of the markings being 

 beneath the surface of the shell. 



The measurements are : A. 24.2 x 20.7, B. 25 x 21, C. 26.2 x 21 mm. 



HIRUNDINID^. 

 61. HIRUNDO BADIA. 



Hirundo baclia, Cass.; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x., p. 166; 

 Robinson and Kloss, torn, cit., p. 50. 



Common round the limestone hills in the vicinity of Ban Kok 

 Klap. 



MUSCICAPIDiE. 



62. CYORNIS DIALIL7EMA. 



Cyornis dialilxma Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., xxvii., p. 387 

 (1889) ; Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 52. 



A couple of males in rather shabby plumage appear to be 

 conspecific with specimens from Trang which we have identified with 

 this form which seems to range down the Peninsula as far south as 

 Selangor, where however it is only met with at considerable elevations. 

 I must confess that I am unable to separate with any confidence males 

 of. C. tickellice, Blyth ; C. su-inaU-ensis, Sharpe ; C. dialilxma, Salvad. ; 

 C rubeculoides (Vig.) and another from allied to C. nigrigularis, 

 Everett ; all of which occur in the Malay Peninsula, though the first 

 two forms have both sexes closely resembling each other while in the 

 last three the females have no tinge of blue on the plumage. 



63. ERYTHROMYIAS MUELLERI. 



Erythromyias muelleri (Blyth) ; Sharpe, tom. cit,, p. 200, pi. iv, 

 fig. 2 ; Robinson Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus., ii, p. 188 (1909). 



An adult female and two very young birds were obtained between 

 12-1500 feet on Kao Nawng. 



*' Iris dark, bill black, feet pale flesh." 



This is the most northerly recorded locality for the species, which 

 isajjurely Malayan form, fairly common throughout the Peninsula at 

 medium elevations and also found in Sumatra and Borneo. The 

 adult bird is perfectly typical. 



