288 MESSRS. ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



Williamson's specimens are the only ones definitely known to 

 us from the area: it is more than doubtful if the species really 

 occurs at all in the Malay Peninsula, south of the isthmus. 

 398. Pellorneum ruficeps subochraceum Swinh. 



Pellorneum subochraceum, Swinhoe, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (4) vii 

 (1871), p. 259 (Tenasserim) ; A., pp. 278, 514 (Tavoy to Banka- 

 soon) ; C. i, p. 66 (Tenasserim to Tongka) ; E., p. 83 (Patani) ; 

 F., p. 59 (Trang, Langkawi Islands) ; H., pp. 103, 149 (Bandon 

 & Koh Samiii) ; I., p. 56 (Koh Lak) ; J., p. 175 (Langkawi & 

 Lontar Islands) ; K., p. 202 Koh Lak) ; L., p. 109 (Ghirbi and 

 Junk Seylon). 



PeUorneu7n minor, B., p. 19 (Junk Seylon). 



Pellorneum ruficeps subochraceum, M., p. 185 (Klong Wang Hip and 

 Patiyu) ; Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 481 (throughoiit Siam) ; 

 M. 2, 239 (Tenasserim ; Malay Peninsula). 



Pellorneum ruficeps minus, Gyldenstolpe (neo Hume), Ibis, 1920, 

 p. 481 (Puket). 



d , 2 . Mamoh, Pakchan, P. Siam, 27 Feb. 1919 [Nos. 4284-5]. 



4 d , 2 2 . Tapli, Pakchan, P. Siam, 3-9 March 1919 [Nos, 

 4379, 4388-9, 4405, 4411, 4518]. 



5, $.Tasan, Chumporn, P..Siam, 14-15 March 1919 [Nos. 



4584, 4599]. 



6. Koh Lak, Ratburi, S. W. Siam, 2 April 1919 [No. 4951]. 

 3 c? , $ . Hat Sanuk, near Koh Lak, Ratburi, S. W. Siam, 



12-18 April 1919 [Nos. 5261, 5281, 5332, 5382]. 



" Iris brown, orbits greenish, bill greenish horn, culmen dark, 

 base yellow ; feet flesh." 



Total length 6 , 165, 168. 158, 160, 168, 166, 165, 162, 165, 

 165 ; 2 , 158, 153, 158, 158, 157 ; wing 6 , 70, 67, 64, 65, 67, 68, 68, 

 68, 68, 70 ; $ , 67, 69, 65, 63, 67 ; tail 6 , 68, 68, 61, 63, 63, 67, 64, 

 68, 67, 72 ; 2 , 62, 64, 58, 63, 65 ; tarsus c? , 26, 26, 25.5, 26, 25, 26, 

 25, 25, 24, 26; 2 , 26. 25.5, 26, 25, 23 (app.); bill from gape cf , 21, 

 22, 20, 21, 20, 22, 19, 21, 20, 19 ; 2 , 20.5, 20, 20, 18, 18.5 mm. 



The form Pellorneum minor Hume, from Thayetmyo, with 

 striped back allied to P. mandelli, has been recorded from Junk 

 Seylon by Muller and admitted by Gyldenstolpe to the Siamese list 

 on his authority. 



A. Hume & navison. Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. E. O. Grant, Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds), 190.5. 



B. Miiller, Die Ornis dor Insel Salaiiga, 1882. F. Bobinson and Kloss, Ibis, 1910-11. 



C. Gates Birds Brit. Burinah, Vols, i & ii, 1883. G. Gairdner, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, i, 1915. 



D. Bonhote. P. Z. S. 1901. Vol. i. H. Robinson, Joiirn. K. M. S. Museums, v, 1915. 



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