THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 179 



" Iris red ; bill wax yellow, tinged with green at base ; feet 

 greenish slate." 



Total length 6, 218, 230, 231; $, 221; wing 6, 124, 122, 

 123; 9, 123; tail S, 82, 77, 79; 9, 78; tarsus 6, 24.5, 24, 23; bill 

 from gape 6. 36, 38, 38; 9, 33 mm. 



• Strictly a bird of the evergreen forests. 

 Sumatran birds range from 113-122 mm. in length of wing. 

 Blythipicus pyrrhotis (Hodgs.). 



Pious pyrrhotis, Hodgs. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vi, 1837, p. 



108 (Nepal). 

 As this species occurs in North Tenasserim and North Siam, 

 and has also been collected by us in the hills of the Malay States, 

 it is almost certain to be found eventually in the intervening area. 

 277. Meiglyptes tristis grammithorax (Malh.). 



Phaiopicus grammithorax, Malherbe, Picidae, ii, 1862, p. 12, pi. 



xlviii, figs. 4, 5 (Malay Peninsula). 

 Meiglyptes tristis (nee Horsf.), A., pp. 131, .oOl (Nwalabo and 



Bankasoon) ; B., p. 72 (Puket or Junk Seylon). 

 Meiglyptes grammithorax, F., p. 46 (Trang) ; H., p. 95 (Bandon) ; 



Williamson, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, iii, 19i8, p. 25 (Patani). 

 Meiglyptes tristis grammitho7'ax, M., p. 422 (Tung Song and Patiyu). 



o. Tapli, Pakchan Estuary, Peninsular Siam, 2 March 1919 

 (No. 4347). 



2 d", 4 9. Tasan, Chumporn, Peninwsular Siam, 13-26 March 

 1919 (Nos. 4544, 4670, 4730, 4854-6). 



'' Iris red, more usually reddish brown ; bill black ; feet green- 

 ish slate." 



Total length 6, 178, 183, 178; 9, 177, 177, 175, 175; wing 

 6, 94, 100, 95; 9, 96, 98, 98, 97; tail 6, 55, 55, 58; 9, 57. 55, 51, 

 53; tarsus 6, 19, 18, 17 ; 9, 19.5. 20, 18.5, 18 ; bill from gape 6, 23.5 

 app., 24, 20; 9, 21, 24, 22, 22 mm. 



We can discover no difference between northern and southern 

 Malay birds except that the southern birds are, as usual, slightly 

 smaller : eight Sumatran birds range from 89-96 mm. in wing, and 

 ten southern Malay birds 92-100 mm. 



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, .Tourn. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



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



L. Robinson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, M. I. Baker, Journ, N. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 1920. 



iii, 1919. (third part). 



VOL. V, NO. 2, 1922. 



