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with the wing-patch, pule orange. Chin, throat and breast, greyish 

 wliite ; remainder of lower plumage, pale yellow. 



Iris, not recorded. Bill and leg?, black. 



llahits, etc. This beautiful little bird is a resident species, and 

 is not uncommon in the well-wooded parts of the suburbs, such as 

 those with extensive areas of betel-nut and fruit gardens. It is of 

 strictl}^ arboreal habit, and goes about in small flocks searching for 

 insects among the leaves and branches of the trees. 



The Siamese name for this species means the "Jungle Pink- 

 bird ". 



Lisirihidion. The only other recorded locality which I can 

 trace is Eastern Siam ( Gyldenstolpe ), but I have had specimens sent 

 to me from Hua Hin. 



-f 24 ( 503 ). Pericrocotus cinereus. Tlic Ashy Miniret. 



Description Length, 203 mm. (Sin. ). Forehead, whitish; 

 lores, a band through the eye, the posterior half of the crown and 

 the nape, black ; remainder of upper plumage, dark grey ; wings, brown 

 to blafikish, with a white wing-bar ; tail, black, all the featliers 

 more or less white at the tip with the exception of the two middle 

 pairs. Lower plumage, ashy white, darker on the flanks 



Iris, brown. Bill and legs, black. 



Habits, etc. Apparentlj^ a cold weather visitor and not veiy 

 connnon. I have oidy two specimens of this bird, shot on the east side 

 of the river in January, but Mr. E. (4. Herbert informs me that he has 

 seen it in March, on the west side. Neither of my birds is in full 

 adult plumage. 



Distrilmtion. There appears to be no previous record of the 

 occurrence of this species in Siam. 



i-2o (512). Artamus fuscus. 77/r Ash// SiraJlow- 



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Siamese, •unatiwi^^ ( Nok eii p'liong). 



Description. Length, 185 mm. (7.3 in.)- Lores, black : head 

 and neck all round, deep grey ; bark, rump and shorter upj ei' tail- 



