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As regards dimensions, the above scries agree well with the 

 type, though it should be noted that its tail is only partially grown, 

 and, therefore, unduly short. It will be seen, however, that one of 

 our birds has a wing of 167 mm., which falls very little short of the 

 upper limit for Himalayan birds, a male from Darjiling measuring 



169 mm. and one from the Abor Hills, collected by S. W. Kemp, 



170 mm. 



If the race is to be maintained, and it seems fairly entitled to 

 rank as a subspecies, it will rest on its somewhat pale colouration 

 above and below, especially on the flanks. 



The species was fairly common at Hat Sanuk along the 

 course of the little stream which w^as flanked by extremely large fig 

 trees. The birds were very wild, flew very high and were therefore 

 hard to get. They were very noisy, uttering the usual penetrating 

 woodpecker shriek. 



Stuart Baker has put forward the suggestion that C. /. i^ierrei 

 Oust., and C. f. lurayi from the mountains of Selangor and Perak, 

 may possibly prove to be one and the same. We can assure him that 

 they are two different birds. To begin with, C. f. pierrei is deci- 

 dedly larger, the wings of adult males averaging about 155 mm., with 

 females almost the same ; while C. f. wrayi has a wing of 147 mm. 

 in males and 142 in females. In the second place, C. f. lurayi is a 

 very much darker bird, the yellow malar patches in the male much 

 restricted and not extending across the chin, the stripes on the throat 

 in adult birds almost non-existent, and the yellow nuchal crest much 

 shorter and paler in colour : the bill, again, is difterent in colour, 

 being recorded as " bluish lead, greener in the lower mandible," or 

 "slate colour"; whevesifi in G. f. plerret it is "maxilla black, sides 

 of base grey ; mandible grey, tip and edges black." 



A readily understandable misprint requires correction, as liable 

 to cause confusioji in the future. S. Baker records a female ivrayi 

 from Salauga which is a synonym of the island of Puket, Tongka, or 



!■ Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Jouin. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



56, No. 2, 1916. ■ . (first part). 



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



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



L« Kobinson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, M. I.' Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 19'20. 



iii. 1919. (third part). 



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