THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 359 



519. Sturnopaster contra floweri Sharpe. 



Sturnopaster floweri, Sharpe, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vii, 1897, p. 

 xvii, (Pachim and Tahkamen, West Central Siam) ; Gyldenstolpe, 

 Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. 50, No. 8, 1913, p. 37 (Bangkok); 



, I., p. 25 (Koh Lak). 



S'turnopaster sicpercilica^is, Q., -p-p. 33, 149 (Petchaburi) ; William- 

 son, Journ. iST. H. Soc. Siam, i, 1915, p. 206 (Bangkok & Koh 

 Lak). 



Sturnopaster superciliaris floweri, K., p. 225 (Tachin). 



Stui'nojKister contra floweri, M., p. 212 (Bangkok). 



Gyldenstolpe states (I., p. 25) that 8. c. suiierciliaris is found 

 in N. Siam : we have not seen any South Tenasserim specimens, but 

 skins from Tavoy to Mergui are determined by Hume (A., p. 387), 

 Oates (C. i, p. 378) and Sharpe (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xiii, p. 59, pi. 

 V, fig. 2) as 8. c, su'perciliaris Blyth (Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, 

 xxxii, 1863, p. 77. Rangoon, ^cZe Baker). This Burmese form differs 

 from S. c. floweri in having the mantle and back brown, not black ; 

 the abdomen vinaceous-grey, not white. 



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



56, No. 2, 1916. (first and second parts). 



J. Robinson. Journ. F. M. S. Miis. vii, 1917. W- !• Baker, op. cit., iv, 1920 (third part). 



K. Kloss, Il^is, 1918. M. 2. Baker, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i, 192-2. 

 L> Eobinson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, 



iii. 1919. 



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