1920.] List of the Birds of Sinm. 603 



Pyrrhopicus porphyromelas Boie. '^'»' 'tt^-^- 



FicHs jiorpJu/roinelas Boie, Briet'e geschr. aiis Ostindien, 



1832; p. 148. 



Stated by Robinson and Kloss (Ibis, 1911, p. 46j to be 



fair]j common in the southern parts of peninsular Siam. 



Meiglyptes jugularis Bhth. 



Me'ujlijjjtes juyalaris Blytli, Journ. Asiat. >Soc. Bengal, xiv. 

 1845, p. 11)5 : Arrakan, 



Hitherto only obtained in northern Siam, where specimens 

 have been collected at Pak Koh, Koon Tan, and Bang Hue 

 Pong. Not common. 



Meiglyptes tristis grammithorax Malh. 



Phaiopicus (jminmithorax Malherbe, Monogr. Picida3, ii. 

 1862, p. 12 : Malay Peninsula. 



Appears to be fairly abundant in the southern parts of 

 peninsular Siam. Grairdner has met with it as far north 

 as Sai Yoke in south-western Siam near the Tenasserim 

 frontier. 



Meiglyptes tukki Less. 



Pints tukki Lesson, Rev. Zool. 1839, p. 167 : Sumatra. 

 Hitherto only recorded from Ban Sai Kau, Biserat, and 

 Jalor in the southern parts of peninsular Siam. 



Micropternus brachyurus burmanicus Hume. 



Alter opteraus burmanicus Hume, Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 1872, p. 70 : Thayetmyo, Pegu. 



Inhabits northern, north-western, and central Siam at 

 least south to Bangkok. The present author also observed 

 it on the Korat plateau in eastern Siam, but as no specimens 

 were collected from there, it is impossible for the present to 

 say if this or the allied Micropternus hraclu/urus holroijdi 

 Swinh., originally described from central Hainan, occurs 

 there. 



Micropternus bracliyurus williamsoni Kloss. 

 Micropternus brachyurus williamsoni Kloss, Ibis, 1918, 

 p. 107: KohLak, S.W. Siam. 



