KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 50. N:0 8- 35 



I vvas the giiest of Mr. E. Eisenhofer — a German railway engineer — at Bång 

 Hue Horn, that gentleman had an »nok kon tong» (the birds Siamese name) which 

 could speak a few Siamese words perfectly in a voice just like that of a woman. 



Length of cT == 250 mm. 



» 2 ??==250 * 

 VVing > (^^ = 156 » 



> 2 ?$=152 & 163 mm. 

 Tail » <j^= 78 mm. 



» 2 ??= 72 » 

 Iris = brown. 



Faiii. Sturiiidte. 



54. Sturnia sinensis Gm. — Of this species which breeds in China biit winters 

 in Pegu, Tenasserim, Cochin China and the Malay Peninsula there is only a single 

 male specimen obtained by a native boy and shot near Bangkok on the 17th of 

 December 1911. In any other part of the country it was neither observed iior shot 

 during my journey. 



Length = 175 mm., Wing =98 mm., Tail = 69 mm., Culmen = 16 mm. 



55. Ampeliceps coronatus Blyth. — The Gold-crested Mynah never occurred 

 in the more open country or that covered with dry forests, but in the primeval 

 evergreen forests, for instance at Bång Hue Horn it was not uncommon. It was 

 always seen in flocks and was rather wary and difficult to get owing to its habit of 

 keeping in the highest trees. The females differ from the males in having the golden 

 crest much smaller and are not of so bright colours as the males and also in having 

 a brovvner tone över the black plumage. 



J" "/2 12 Eang Hue Ilom. 

 Length = 205 mm. 

 Wing =131 » 

 Tail = 65 » 



The females are of about the same length as the males but in one female 

 specimen in the coUection the wing only measures = 120 mm. 



56. Graculipica nigricollis Payk. — The Black-necked Mynah was rather com- 

 mon in the dry forests of Northern and Central Siam, but it was also found now 

 and then in the eastern districts e. g. at Sakerat and Non Luum though it was not 

 so common in these places as at Pak Pan and Den Chai. About the end of February 

 the birds were mostly seen in pairs and a male killed on the 19th of February had 

 its genital organs greatly swoUen. 



