NO. 14 THE RACES OF PELLORNEUM RUFICEPS — ^DEIGNAN II 



Magwe Division, Burma, on March 12, 1938, by Gerd Heinrich (orig- 

 inal number 2010). 



Diagnosis. — Nearest P. r. hilarum, but with the rufous of the 

 forehead, crown, and nape paler and grayer (close to the color of 

 these parts in punctatum) ; the remaining upper parts olivaceous 

 gray-brown (more gray and less brown than in any other race) ; the 

 under parts streaked as in hilarum, but with the ground color an 

 even paler buff. 



Range. — Burma (Chin Hills). 



Specimens examined. — Burma: Kanpetlet District: Mount Vic- 

 toria (i male), Kyaukswe (i male). 



12. PELLORNEUM RUFICEPS subsp. 



In Arakan there seems to be a distinct race, characterized by 

 obsolescent dark centers to the feathers of the uppermost back and 

 a warm rufescent suffusion above and below. Since but two old 

 specimens have been seen, neither of which has proper data, and one 

 of which is an "erythro," this population will not be named here, 

 although, since it does not agree with any of the neighboring ones, 

 a special designation will probably be found necessary in the future 

 when better material is available. 



13. PELLORNEUM RUFICEPS MINUS Hume 



Pellorneum minor [sic] Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. i, Nos. 2-4, Feb. 1873, 

 p. 298 (Thayetmyo, Thayetmyo District, Magwe Division, Burma). 



Pellorneum intermedium Bowdler Sharpe, Catalogue of the Birds in the 

 British Museum, vol. 7, 1883, p. 519, pi. 13, fig. i ("from Cachar to the 

 neighbourhood of Thayetmyo" ; type locality here restricted to Thayetmyo, 

 Thayetmyo District, Magwe Division, Burma). 



Diagnosis. — From all precedent forms, excepting olivaceiim and 

 ruficeps, distinguished by having no trace of dark centers to the 

 feathers of the uppermost back and by having the light edgings to 

 the feathers of the sides of the neck narrow and inconspicuous. 



Pellorneum r. minus has the rufous of the forehead, crown, and 

 nape brighter than has any race yet discussed ; the remaining upper 

 parts olivaceous brown, faintly suffused with rufescent ; the under 

 parts everywhere washed with buff and with the central streaks of 

 the feathers of the breast and sides of the abdomen narrow and 

 sparse. 



Range. — Burma (valley of the lower Irrawaddy from the 

 Thayetmyo District to its mouths). 



