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242. Cacomantis merulinus querulus Heine. 



Cacomantis querulus^ Heine, Jouvn. f. Orn. 1863, p. 352 (Nepal ; 



Burma). 

 Cacomantis threnodes, A., p. 158 (Mergui to Bankasoon) ; B., p. 53 



Junk Seylon) ; C. ii, p. 112 (Tenasserim and Malay Peninsula). 

 Cacomantis merulinus, Shelley, Oat. Birds B. M. xix, 1891, p. 268 



(Mergui to Bankasoon) ; E., p. 105 (Patani) ; F., p. 40 (Trang); 



H., p. 146 (Koh Samui). 

 Cacomantis merulinus querulus, I., p. 101 (Koh Lak) ; K., p. 98 



(Koh Lak) ; L., p. 98 (Junk Seylon). 



6. Mamok, Pakchan, Peninsular Siam, 28 Februaiy 1919 

 (No. 4315). 



dad, 9 imm. Tapli, Pakchan, Peninsular Siam, 9 March 1919 

 (Nos. 4321, 4449). 



6 imm. Tasan, Chumporn, Peninsular Siam, 17 March 1919 

 (No. 4658). 



" Iris crimson or reddish ; bill black, gape yellow ; feet ochre- 

 ous or yellow." 



Total length d, 216, 225, 212 ; $,215; wing d,103, 109,107; 

 9, 104; tail S, 115, 119, 113; 9, 107: tarsus c?,16, 18, 16; 9, 16; 

 bill from gape S, 2-3, 22.5, 23; 9, 24 mm. 



The paler southern race, C. m. threnodes Cab. and Heine, of 

 the Malay States, has not yet been met with in Peninsular Siam. 

 243. Cacomantis sepulcralis sepulcralis (Mailer). 



Cuculus sejndcralis, S. Miiller, Verh. Nat. Gesch. Land-en Volkenk, 



1839-44, p. 177, note (Java and Sumatra). 

 Cacomantis sepulchralis sepulchralis, J., p. 155 (Koh Muk ; Trang). 



6 ad., 9 imm. Tapli, Pakchan, Peninsular Siam, 4 March 

 1919 (Nos. 4416, 4423). 



" Iris brown, orbital ring yellow ; bill black, reddish at base ; 

 feet yellow, claws dark." 



Total length c^, 225; 9, 240; wing o', 107 ; 9, 112 ; tail <5, 

 125 ; 9, 127 ; tarsus d, 15 ; 9, 16 ; bill from gape S, 23.5 ; 9, 25 mm. 



Two examples were obtained on Khao Luang, Nakawn Sri 

 Tamarat, in March 1922. 



I. Ciyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akacl. Handl. M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



56, No. '2, 1916. (flist part). 



J. Robinson, Journ. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. Baker, Joum. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



K. Kloss, Ibis, 1918. (second part). 



L. Eobinson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, WI. i. Baker, Joui-n, N. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 1920. 



iii, 1919. (tliird part). 



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