KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR, BAND 56. N:0 2. 63 
Sparsely distributed over the whole country though even occurring rather high up 
among the mountains. 
As a rule this species was observed associated in small parties, and the birds were 
busily searching their food among the foliage. It is a very restless bird which is always 
on the move and they very much resemble a party of Tits going through the forest while 
they constantly utter their twittering notes. 
Fam. Liotrichide. 
109. Pterythias eralatus. Tick. — Tickell’s Shrike-Tit. 
Pterythius eralatus: Robinson I p. 107. 
@ Koon Tan *4/5 1914. L=155 mm.; W=76 mm.; T= 59 mm.; C= 13 mm.; Tarsus = 23 mm. 
— Trides: brownish black. Bill: horn colour (upper mandible plumbeous). Legs: flesh colour. 
Seems to be very rare and during the whole journey only one specimen was shot 
by my native collector. 
My specimen perfectly well agrees with the description given by HuME on a speci- 
men from Mooleyit but there is no olivaceous shade on the occiput which is pure grey with 
a few white triangular white spots on the middle of the feathers near the shaft but only 
visible when the plumage is disarranged. On the feathers of the back there are also 
some white spots and these feathers are tipped with olivaceous grey. 
The outermost secondary has a chestnut spot at the tip and the shaft is rufous 
orange. All the other feathers except that one and the tertiaries have blackish shafts. 
The under tail-coverts are white with a faint fulvous tinge. 
Fam. Pycnonotide. 
110. Aegithina tiphia. Linn. — The Common Jora. 
Aegithina tiphia: Gyldenstolpe I p. 23; Gyldenstolpe III p. 166; Grant p. 90; Bonhote p. 61; Oustalet 1903 
p. 68; Robinson & Kloss p. 55; Williamson I p. 42; Williamson II p. 78; Robinson I p. 101; Robinson II 
p. 148. 
Tova tiphia: Miller p. 367. 
do Koon Tan 78/5 1914. L = 110 mm.; W = 60,5 mm.; T = 53 mm.; C = 15 mm. — ¢ Bang Hue 
Pong *7/5 1914. L=140 mm.; W = 65 mm.; T = 53,5 mm; C= 14,2 mm. — ¢ Bang Hue Pong 8/5 1914. 
L=125 mm.; W = 65 mm; | = 52 mm.; —_ 12,5 mm. — é Koh Lak 30/1, 1914. L = 125 mm.; W = 
a mm.; T = 59 mm.; C= 14,5 mm. — Q Koh Lak 7/11 1914. L—= 132 mm.; W = 64 mn.; T = 58 
:C. = 13,5 mm. — Irides: greyish white. Bill: plumbeous. Legs: bluish grey. 
The Common lora was very abundant in gardens, orchards and secondary- or 
brushjungles over the whole country. Sometimes this species was also observed in ever- 
green forests and a few specimens where obtained in such kind of vegetation. In the 
mountains dividing Siam and Tenasserim it was never met with, but some specimens 
wete collected in the bamboo-jungles near the sea-shore at the neighbourhood of Koh 
Lak. In Bangkok and its surroundings it is also a common bird as stated by WILLIAMSON 
(Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Siam Vol. I N:o 2 p. 78.) 
