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60. Cyornis tickelli Blyth, — Tickell's Blue Flycatcher was obtained oii 

 several occasions, but only fairly common in the northerii parts of the coiiiitry. 

 Here I found it both on the skirts of the evergreen forest belt and in the dry 

 forests, though always more abundant in the last-mentioned. A single male specimen 

 was also shot near the town Muang Pa Tong Tschai south of Korat. 



J »/. 12 Den Cliai. J* "Vi 12 Muang Pa. $ V2 12 Bång IIuo Iloni. 



Length=125 mm. Length= 130 mm. Length = 120 mm. 



\Ying = 65 » Wing = 67 » Wing -- 63 » 



Tail = 57 » Tail = 57 * Tail =^ 53 » 



61. Stoparola melanops Vig. — This Flycatcher was rather rare in the loca- 

 hties visited by the Expedition, and I only succeeded in getting two specimens, a 

 male and a female. The first-mentioned was shot close to a small abandoned 

 bungalow at the Kao Plyng pass nearly where the Northern railway is crossing the 

 mountains, and the female was obtained in a bamboojungle near Den Chai. At this 

 place I observed one or two more specimens but these two occasions were the only 

 when I had the opportunity of noticing this beautiful bird. 



In the Malay Peninsula and Lower Siarn it is replaced by a near relative 

 Stoparola thalassinoides Cab. the nortliern limits of which are yet quite uncertain. 



Length of d" = 152 mm. ? 148 mm. 

 Wing » <^= 82,5 » $ 81 » 

 Tail » cj'= 68,5 » ? 70 » 



62. Culicicapa ceylonensis Swains. — During my stay in Siam I shot two 

 specimens of this bird, one was obtained near the village of Non Luum and the 

 other is from a brnshwood jungle near the Meh Lem river. These are the only records 

 I can give of this bird which is probably sparsely distributed in favourable localities 

 över the whole of Siam. 



cT Vä 12 Mch Lem. $ i^i 12 Nou Luum. 



Length = 122 mm. Length-- 103 mm. 



Wing = 60 » Wing == 57 » 



Tail = 52 » Tail = 48 * 



63. Hypothymis azurea prophata Oberholser. — Very abundant in some of 

 the Northern districts, but this species seems to be very local and it miglit be very 

 common in one place though it might be completely absent close by in quite as 

 favourable a locality. The secondary jungles at Bång Hue Hom were very favoured 

 by these birds and here they were abundant, which was also the case at Den Chai. 



I have referred the Siamese form of the Black-naped Flycatcher to a race 

 described by Oberholser as Hypothymis azurea prophata in liis newly published 

 »Monograph of the Flycatcher Genus Hypothymis». This subspecies is very similar 

 to Hypothymis azurea azurea Bodd. which inhabits the Philippine Islands but is 



