KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 56. N:0 2. 99 
188. Gyanops ramsayi. Waup. — Ramsay’s Golden-throated Barbet. 
do Doi Par Sakeng */7 1914. = 187 mm.; W = 98 mm.; T = 60 mm; © = 21 mm.; Tarsus = 
21 mm. — Irides: brown. Bill: black. Legs: yellowish green. 
I only met with this species once in Northwestern Siam, where a male specimen 
was shot on the slopes of a limestone hill near Doi Par Sakeng. In no other parts of the 
country it was obtained or observed why it seems to be exceedingly rare in Siam. 
When the specimen was shot it was in company with some other kind of Barbets, 
such as Therciceryx lineatus hodgsont Br. and Cyanops davisoni Humes. and the birds 
were busily feeding on the fruits of a banyan tree. 
189. Therciceryx phaeostricta. Br. 
Therciceryx pheostricta saigonensis: Gyldenstolpe Il; Gyldenstolpe II p. 230. 
Therciceryx pheostricta: Robinson III p. 737. 
Sex : Locality Date Length | Wing Tail Culmen | Tarsus | 
mm. | mm mm. mm mm. | 
[og Koon Tan ‘fs 1914 235 | 112 77 28 23 : 
gt Koon Tan 1914 | 2939 1 75 28 25 
ad. Koon Tan 1914 ~— | 4 15 25 23,5 
ee Doi Par Sakeng | 7/: 1914 212112 71 24 25 
ov Koon Tan %/s 1914 225 110 69,6 25 24 
fe) Koon Tan 4/5 1914 230 | 110 73 26 24 
se Koon Tan 5/9 1914 2200, 5 76 26 23 
| og | Koon Tan 1/5 1914 | 240 | 112 80 25 24 
| Q | Koon Tan “fo 1914 | 245 © 110 80 29 25 
|; ot Koon Tan M/s 1914 215 Lil 71 21 24 
2 Koon Tan “75 1914 250 | 110 80 27 24 
| fod Koon Tan Me 1914 212 | 111 74 24 24 
| ot Doi Par Sakeng | */r 1914 202 = «12 72 26 24 
Irides: brown to reddish brown. Bill: horn colour with the base plumbeous. Legs: greenish olive. 
This Barbet was fairly common in the Northern hill-forests as for instance at Koon . 
Tan and at Doi Par Sakeng and a fine series was obtained. 
NEUMANN separated the form inhabiting the lower Cochin China on account of 
its smaller size and comparatively shorter bill from typical Th. phaeostricta Br. which 
inhabits Annam, Tonkin and Southern China. 
As seen by the measures taken on the series from Siam the bills are a little shorter 
than what is stated for typical phaeostricta viz. 29—30 mm., but the wings in these same 
Siamese specimens are quite as large as those of typical pheostricta and NEUMANN’s type 
specimen for his Th. p. saigonensis may only have been an exceptionally small bird. 
I therefore think that saigonensis NEuM. is not worthy of subspecific separation. 
This is also confirmed by what has recently been stated by Ropinson for the birds col- 
lected by Mr. BopEn Kuoss in the Chantaboon District of Southeastern Siam, thus on 
localities situated not far from the place where NreumaANN’s type was collected. 
