1920.] A Nominal List of the Birds of Siam. 569 



to tlie mere amassing of skins — undoubtedly (I would remind 

 some biologists) the means to tiie end, but uot the end in 

 itself. Nine-tenths of the value of a collection of birds is 

 to be found in the deductions which we can make from 

 itj but it must not be overlooked that without the in- 

 comparable material, such as that contained in the British 

 and Tring Museums, such deductions could never be made, 

 and the great Principles built up by such men as Darwin, 

 AVallace, and P. L. Sclater upon which Zoology is based 

 could never have been formulated. 



[Concluded.] 



XXI. — A Nominal List of the JBirds at present knoivn to 

 inhabit Siam. By Count Nils Gyldenstolpe, D.Sc, 

 F.M.B.O.U. 



[Continued from p. 496.] 



Family Campophagid^. 



Artamides sumatrensis S. ]\Iiill. 



Cehlepyris sumatrensis S. IMiiller, Verhandl. Natuurl. 

 Gesch., Land- en Volkenk. 1844, p. 190 : Sumatra. 



Recorded by Barton from Me Taw near Raheng, but 

 identification most certainly wrong. 



Graucalus macei siamensis Stuart Baker. 



Graurahis macei siamensis Stuart Baker, Bull. Brit. Ornitli. 

 Club, xxxviii. 1918, p. 69. 



The Siamese representative of the Large Cuckoo-Shrike 

 has recently been separated by Stuart Baker under the 

 above-mentioned n;une. It is fairly common in suitable 

 localities throughout the wliole country. 



Volvocivora lugubris saturata Swinh. 



Volvocivora saturata Swiidioe, Ibis, 1870, p. 242 : Hainan. 



Only recorded from Koon Tan in northern Siam. 



Volvocivora lugubris intermedia Hume. 

 Volvocivora iidermedia Hume, Stray Feathers, v. 1877, 

 p. 205 : Tenasserim. 



Apparently an inhabitat of eastern Siam, where specimens 



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