TIIl^ BIRDS OF BANGIWK. 85 



especuilly during the breeding season. When so calling, a con- 

 spii'uous black mark is noticeable on each side of the neck, owino- to 

 the feathers opening out and showing their black bases. 



Distrihution. With the exception of Gates' statement that this 

 bird " extends into Siam," and the reference to it in Flower's short list 

 of Bangkok birds mentioned in the introduction to this paper, I can 

 iind no other record of its occurrence in this country. 



-^14 (375). Orthotomus atrigularis. The Black-throated 

 Tailor-bird. 



Siamese, 'unnJ^'^u fiTsl'JpiQ m (Xok krachib krasa i 

 kli(j (lam ). 



Begcription. Very similar in size and colouration to the preced- 

 ing species, from which it differs mainly in having the whole of the 

 crown rufous or chestnut, tlie throat (in the adult male), black, and the 

 edge of the wing, the under wing-coverts and the under tail-coverts, 

 yellow. 



Iris, pale reddish brown. Bill, brown above, flesh-colour below\ 

 Legs, flcsh-coloLir. 



Ilahiis, etc. This bird has much the same habits as the previous 

 species, but keeps to well-wooded tracts, with a good deal of under- 

 growth. The only locality in which 1 have met with it here is on the 

 \vest side of the river, among the fruit and betel-nut gardens in the 

 Bansaikai district, though it is doubtless to be found in other suitable 

 places in the outskirts of Bangkok. It is common in the district 

 mentioned. The notes of this bird consist of a short but pleasant trill, 

 kr-r-rui. Ir-r-rui, as well as a longer and more liquid chr-r-r-r-r. 



Bisinlndion . Also occurs in Eastern and Northern Siam 

 ((xyldenstolpe). 



"M5 (381 j. Cisticola cursitans. Tlie Rufous Fantail- 



Wa rider. 



Bescription. Length, about 101 mm. (4 in.). Upper plumage, 

 dark brown, with rufous margins to the feathers, giving the bird a 

 streaked a])pearance ; rump, plain rufous ; tail feathers, tipped with 

 wliite. Lowei plumage, butfy white, except Hanks and thighs, which 

 are rufnus. 



