THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 373 



Aethopyga siparaja siparaja (Raff.). 



Certhia sipar(CJa,'R3L&Les,'£reins. Linn, Soc. xiii, 1821, p. 299 (Suma- 

 tra). 

 Aethopyga siparaja, F., p. 74 (partim : Trang). 

 Aethopyga siparaja cara, J., p. 190 (Langkawi). 



This subspecies may occnr in Patani, but the most northerly 



examples we possess, belonging undoubtedly to it, come from Penang ; 



birds from Perils and Langkawi show indications of transition to 



A. e. ear a. 



541. Aethopyga siparaja cara Hume. 



Aethopyga cara, Hume, Stray Feathers, ii, 1875, p. 473, note 

 (south of Moulmein, Tenasserim) ; A., p. 1 79 (Tavoy to Tenas- 

 sei'im town) ; B., p. 22 (Junk Seylon) ; 0. i, p. 340 (S. to Tenas- 

 serim town); G., p. 149 (Ratburi or Petchaburi) ; H., p. 151 

 (Koh Samui) ; Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) vii, 1889, p. 

 434 (Malewoon). 



Aethopyga siparaja, F., p. 74. (Trang). 



Aethopyga siparaja cara, J., p. 190 (Terutau) , L., p. 1 1 8 (Junk 

 Seylon). 



Aethopyga seheriae cara, M., p. 414 (Patiyu). 



6 . Pulo Mohea (S. Island), P. Siam, 2 Feb. 1919 [No. 3919]. 

 $ . Koh Pipidon, Ghirbi Bay, P. Siam, 5 Feb. [No. 8939]. 



2 6 . Koh Rah, P. Siam, 16-17 Feb. 1919 [Nos. 4040, 4076]. 

 9 . Koh Yam Yai, P. Siam, 18 Feb. 1919 [No. 4119]. 



S imm. Tapli, P. Siam, 6 March 1919 [No. 4451]. 



5 d, 2. Tasan, Chumporn, P. Siam, 14-23 March 1919 

 [Nos. 4589, 4610-11, 4695, 4811]. 



"Male, iris dark; bill black, lower mandible brownish; feet 

 brownish black ; female, iris dark hazel ; bill blackish above, brown 

 beneath ; feet dark brown " 



Total length 6, 115, 122,113,115,118,121, 107; $,104, 

 103, 103; wing S , 55, 55, 56, 55, 58, 56, 52 ; $ , 48, 49, 48 ; tail 

 6 , 52, 50, 48, 48, 49, 50, 40 (imp.); $ , 41, 40, 34; tarsus 6 , 16.5, 

 15, 14, 15, 14, 15, 15; 9 , 14, 13.5, 13; bill from gape 6 , 22, 19, 18, 

 18,— , 18, 18; 9, 17, 17, 16 mm. 



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

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



J. Eobinson, Journ. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. Wl. I. Baker, op, cit., iv, 1920 (tliird part). 



K. Kloss, Ibis, 1918. M. 2. Baker, Fauna Brit. In.l.. Birds, i, 19-22. 

 L. Robinson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, 



iii. 1919. 



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