366 MESSRS. ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



512. AgTopsar sturnina (Pall). 



Gracula stiii'nhia, Palla.s, Rei.s. Russ. Reich.s. 1776, p. 695 (Dauria). 

 Sturnia sturnina, A., p. 393 (Tavoy, Mergui) ; C. i, p. 383 

 (Tenasserim). 



Mr. Williamson informs us that he has a note oi" a male 



collected by Mr. C. J. Aagard at Bangnara, Patani, Peninsular Siara, 



on 2nd November 191G. 



513. Ampeliceps coronatus Blyth. 



Ampeliceps coronatus, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xi, 1842, 

 p. 194 (Tenasserim) ; A., p. 398 (Tavov) ; B., p. 36 (Junk Seylou); 

 F., p. 68 (Trang); L., p. 117 (Ghirbi); M., p. 211 (Patiyu) ; 

 Hopwood, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xxvi, 1919, p. 856 

 (S. Tenasserim). 



514. Graculipica leucocephala (Gigl. & Salvad.). 



Acridotheres leucoce2)halus, Gigl. & Salvad., Atti R. Acad. Torino, 

 V, 1870, p. 273 (Saigon, Cochin China : also Siam). 



Sturnia incognita, Hume, Stray Feathers, viii, 1879, p. 396 

 (between the Tenasserim frontier and Bangkok) ; id. op. cit. ix, 

 1880, p. 295 (between Tavoy and the Siamese frontier"). 



Sturnia leucocephala, C. i, p. 387 (Tavoy-Siamese hills). 



Sptodiopsar leucocephalus, I., p. 24 (Koh Lak). 



Graculi2)ica leucocephala, K., p. 223 (Koh Lak). 



1 6 . Koh Lak, S. W. Siam, 9 April 1919 (No. 5280). 



"Bill orange, tomia greenish, black towards gape ; orbits black : 

 feet orange yellow". 



Total length 24-0 ; wing 127; tail 78; tarsus 35; bill from 

 gape 30 mm. 



We have before us a series of thirteen birds from S. W. Siam, 



E. Siam and South Aunam. The individual variation in each place 



is enormous and we feel quite unable to recgnise as distinct races : — 



Sturnia incognita Hume. Tenasserim. 



Poliopsar cainhodianus Sharpe. Cambodia, 



Poliopsar leucocephalus annannensis Wells. Nhatrang, S. Annam. 



515. Graculipica nigricollis (Payk.). 



Gracula nigricolUs, Paykull, Stockholm Acad. Handl. xxviii, 1807, 



p. 291, t. ix (Canton). 

 Graculijyica nigricollis, G., p. 149 (Ratburi and Petchaburi) ; K., 



p. 224 (Koh Lak); Williamson, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, i, 1915, 



p. 204 (Koh Lak). 



A. Hume & Davison, Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. E. O. Grant, Fasciculi JMalayenses, iii (Birds), 1905. 



B. Miiller, Die Ornis der Insel Salanga, 188-2. F. Robinson and Kloss, Djis, 1910-11. 



C. Oateg, Birds Brit. Biirmah, Vols, i & ii, 1883. G. (rairdner, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, i, 1915. 



D. Bonhoto, P.Z.S. 1901, Vol. i. H. Kobinson. Joui-n. F. M, S. Museums, v, 1915 



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