THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 355 



Birds of the Malay Peninsula and Tenasserim are intermediate be- 

 tween the smaller Javanese and the larger Tipperah race, A. p. ajffinis 

 Hay (cf. Stresemann, Nov. Zool. xx, 1913, p. 376); they should per- 

 haps be. indicated as A. p. strigatus > afinis. 



510. Sturnia sinensis (Gm.). 



Oriolus sinensis, Gni., Syst. Nat i, 1788, p. 394 (China). 

 Sturnia sinensis, G., p. 149 (Ratburi & Petchaburi) ; 1. i., p. 25 

 (Koh Lak). 



Williamson has a series of this species from Petchaburi, Nong 



Kae and Koh Lak in S. W. Siam, and from Huey Sak, Peninsular 



Siam : some of them are strongly washed with salmon, others entirely 



lack this colour. 



Sturnia malabarica malabarica (Gm.). 



T Urdus malabaricus, Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, p. 816 (Malabar). 

 Sturnia malabarica, A., p. 389 (Mergiii) ; 0. i, p. 387 (Malewoon). 



This race may occur in our area, as it has been recorded from 



South Tenasserim. Hume and Davison's Mergui specimens had rich 



rufous underparts and no trace of any white feathers in the wing ; 



and Gates' Malewoon examples had deep ferruginous underparts ; 



and winglet and primary coverts black. 



511. Sturnia malabarica nemoricola Jerdon. 



Sturnia nemoricola, Jerdon, Ibis, 1862, p. 22 (Upper Burma). 



2 $ . Koh Lak, S. W. Siam, 6 April 1919 (Nos. 5111, 5217). 



"Iris bluish white or grey ; bill yellow at tip, blue at base ; 

 feet yellow". 



Total length 187, 185 ; wing 106, 95 ; tail 65, 63; tarsus 23, 

 23 ; bill from gape 23.5, 22 mm. 



Besides the above specimens, we have seen two more of 

 Williamson's from Nong Kae, S. W. Siam. In one of these the 

 winglet is white, in one black. The primary coverts vary from 

 white, black and white, to black ; but there is always some white on 

 the wing". 



!• Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soo. Siam, iii, 1919. 



56, No. 2, 191G. (flrst and second parts). 



J. Robinson, .Journ. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. M. I. Baker, op, cit., iv, 19'20 (third part). 



K. Kloss, Ibis, 1918. WI. 2. Baker, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i, 192'2. 

 U. Robinson and Kloss, Joiu-n. N. H. Soc. Siam, 



iii, 1919. 



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