THE BIRDS OF SCUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 177 



Total length 137, 145; wing 84, 82; tail 43, 48; tarsus 13.5, 

 15 ; bill from gape 20.5, 20 mm. 



Much commoner, as a rule, near the coast, especially among 

 casuarinas, but also found inland. 



We have followed Blanford, as has Gyldenstolpe (I., p. 93), in 

 not maintaining I. piimilus Hargitt, even as a local race of this 

 species, and Baker's remarks on the subject (Ibis, 1919, p. 192) are 

 in accordance. Incidentally it may be pointed out that there is an 

 unfortunate, though obvious, misprint in his passage. In the fourth 

 line picatus should replace auranfeiventris, which is a very distinct 

 and perfectly good species : later on auranteiventris is misprinted 

 aiirieventris. 



The specimen from Namchuk has only one small spot on one 

 median tail feather, while that from Tung Pran has four large 

 spots on both. 



It is not impossible that birds from Central and Southern 

 Tenasserin, Siam and French Indo-China may ultimately prove 

 separable from more northern Burmese and Assamese birds, which 

 are typical I. canicapillus (type, Raniree Id., Aracan). In this case 

 they would after all have to bear the name I. putnilus (type from 

 Malewoon), though the characters may be other than those assigned 

 to that race in the original description. 



Comparison of the series of ten birds from the Northern 

 Malay Peninsula, which may or may not be true I. canicapillus, 

 show that the Southern Malay bird (21 specimens examined) is quite 

 readily separable, and we have named it I. c. suffusus ( Bull, 

 B. 0, C, xl., 1914, p. 14 (type from Kuala Lumpur). 



275. Bryobates analis longipennis (Hesse). 



Dendrocopus analis longipennis, Hesse, Orn. Monatsb. xx, 1912, p. 82 



(Bangkok) ; id Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 86, 1912, p. 156 (Siam). 

 Picus pect iralis, Blyth, Journ. Asiat Soc. Bengal, xv, 1846, p. 15 



(Habitat unknown). Preoccixpied by Picus pectoralis Latham, 



Ind. Orn. Suppl. 1801, p. 32. 

 ' Dryohates analis, Stresemaim, Nov. Zool. xx, 1913, p. 349 (partim: 



Indo-China). 



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



56, No. 2, 1916. (first part). 



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



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



L, Eobinson and Kloss, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, M. I. Baker, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, iv, 19-20. 



iii, 1919. (thud part). 



VOL. V, NO. 2, 1922. 



