is tlie 



eastern race 



of Pratincola 



Siarn, 



the 



breeding 



places are 



to 



Japan. 





? «/i 101 

 Length -= 

 Wing - 

 Tail 

 Culmen = 



2 Sakerat 

 128 mm. 



64 ^ 

 = 48 » 



10 » 





KFNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 50. N:0 8. 39 



Faiii. Tiirdidae. 



64. Pratincola torquata stejnegeri Parrot. — I only observed this Busli- 

 Chat on the Korat plateau but here and especially near the village of Sakerat it was 

 rather common during my stay at this place in January 1912. This species which 



torquata maura Pall. is only a winter visitor in 

 be found in Eastern Siberia, Northern China & 



(^ -'/i 1912 Muang Pa. 

 Length =120 mm. 

 Wing = 67 » 

 Tail = 50 * 

 Culmen = 10 » 



65. Copsychis saularis L. — The Magpie Robin seems to be distributed över 

 the whole of Siam and it was often met with during my journey. It is a very 

 familiar bird mostly frequenting the gardens in the town and villages, but it was 

 also observed in some of the nearly overgrown old clearings in the primeval ever- 

 green forests in the North. 



When staying at Sriracha, a small village near the eastern coast of the Gulf 

 of Siam, I found a nest in a hollow tree. On the 21st of April it contained three 

 eggs which were greenish white with brownish red spöts. 



The Magpie Robins in my collection from Siam belong to the typical Cop- 

 sychis saularis L. and not to the allied Copsychis musicus Raffl. which among 

 other countries inhabits great parts of the Malay Peninsula and Southern Tenasserim. 

 This last-mentioned bird is distinguished from the former by having the under wing- 

 coverts and axillaries almost entirely black while these parts in the Indian and 

 Burmese as well as the Siamese birds are nearly white. 



$ y-' 1912 Bång Ilue Horn. $ ^V^ 1913 Bång Ilue Ilom 

 Length = 200 mm. Length = 202 mm. 



Wing = 92 » Wing = 92,5 » 



Tail = 86 » Tail = 82 * 



Culmen = 18 » Culmen = 18 » 



This species is seen on the ground even more than in the trees, always 

 moving the tail in a wagtail-like manner. Sometimes it also raises its tail perpen- 

 dicularly. 



66. Cittocincla macrura Gm. — The Shama was not very common in the loca- 

 lities I visited, but occurred both in the dry forests round Den Chai and in the thick 

 secondary jungles close to Bång Hue Hom but always in hmited numbers. It seems 

 to be rather a familiar bird and was not shy at all. It mostly frequents the bam- 



