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+ LIST OF BIRDS COLLECTED BY MR. EMIL 

 EISENHOFER IN NORTHERN SIAM. 



By Nils GvLDExsTOLrE, B. A. 



The following list is based upon a collection of birds made 

 in Northern 8iam bj'' Mr. Eiuil Eiseuhofer, Divisional Engineer of 

 the Northern Railway. The birds were collected chieflj^ at Pa Hing, 

 Bang Buei and Koon Tan — all these places being situated along the 

 line to Chiengniai. There are many interesting and very rare species 

 in the collection, as will be seen from the list, ar.d a number are 

 quite new to the Siamese fauna. Most of the species have, however, 

 been previously recorded from Burma, the Shan States and the adjoin- 

 ing parts of French Indo-China. 



Owing to lack of literature with me in Siam, I have been 

 unable to go deeply into the question of subspecies. I have, therefore, 

 followed closely the classification given by Oates and Blanford in the 

 Fauna of British India, except in the case of the Colavihidae, where I have 

 adhered to the nomenclature adopted by Mr. E. C. Stuart Baker in 

 his recently published Indian Fiijeons and Doces, which is the latest 

 work on that Family. 



For the convenience of readers possessing the Fauna of British 

 India, I have given the numbers in that work in brackets for each bird, 

 recorded therein. 



In 1913 Mr. Eisenhofer sent a large collection to the Museum 

 at Hannover. B}^ the courtesy of its Director, Professor Doctor A. 

 Fritze, all the birds were handed over to me for identification and a list 

 of these has been published in the ProceediiKjs of the Museum, The 

 species recorded in that paper are marked with an asterisk in the 

 following list. 



Nearly all ]\fr. Eisenhofer's specimens are in verj^ good condi- 

 tion and it is to be hop^^d that he will further add to his fine 

 collection. 



