KUNGL. SV. VKT. AKADKMIKNS HANULINUAIt. MANI) 56. NIO 2. 83 



Sparsely distributed över the whole country thougli even oecurring rather high iip 

 among the mountains. 



As a rule tliis species was observed associated in small parties, and (lic birda were 

 busily searching their food ainong the foliage. Jt is a very restleas bird which is always 

 on the move and they very mnch resemble a party of Tits going fchrough l lie lon-st while 

 they constantly utter their twittering notes. 



Fam. Liotrichidse. 



109. Pterythias aeralatus. Tick. — Tickell's Shrike-Tit. 



Pterythius ceralatus: Robinson I p. 107. 



^ Koon Tan 8 */5 1914. L = 155 mm.; W — 70 mm.; T = 59 mm.; C = 13 mm.; Tarsus = 2:; mm. 

 — Irides: brownish black. Bill: horn eolour (upper mandible plumbeous). Logs: flesb eolour. 



Seems to be very rare and during the whole journey only one specimen was sliot 

 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 triangulär white spöts 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 al so 

 so me white spöts and t hese feathers are tipped with olivaceous grey. 



The outermost secondary has a chestnut spöt 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. 



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Fam. PycnonoticUe. 



110. Aegithina tiphia. Linn. — The Common Iora. 



Aegithina tiphia: Gyldenstolpe I p. 23: Gyldenstolpe III p. 166: Grant p. 90: Boubote p. 61: Oustalet 1903 

 p. 68: Robinson A Kloss p. 55: Williamson I p. 42: Williamson II p. 78: Robinson I p. 101: Robinson II 

 p. 148. 



Iora tiphia: Muller p. 367. 



<$ Koon Tan 2ft A, 1914. L = 110 mm.: W = 60,5 mm.: T = 53 mm.: C =-- 15 mm. — J Bång Hue 

 Pong "/ 5 1914. L = 140 mm.: W = 65 mm.: T = 53,5 mm.: C =- 14,2 mm. — ^ Bång Hue Pong 8 / s 1914. 

 L = 125 mm.: W = 65 mm.; T = 52 mm.; C= 12,5 mm. - - J* Koh Lak so /u 1914. L = 125 mm.: W = 

 61 mm.: T = 52 mm.: C = 14,5 mm. — $ Koh Lak 23 /u 1914. L = 132 mm.: W = 64 mm.: T = 58 

 mm.: C = 13,5 mm. — Irides: greyish white. Bill: plumbeous. Legs: bluisb grey. 



The Common Iora was very abundant in gardens, orchards and secondary- or 

 brushjungles över 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 Siarn and Tenasserim it was ne ver met with, but some specimens 

 wefe 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 Siarn Vol. I N:o 2 p. 78.) 



