4Ö OYLDENSTOLPE, BIRDS COI.LECTED BY THE SWEDISH ZOOLOGICAL EXPEDITION TO SIAM. i 



boo thickets near rivers and small creeks, and was sometimes seen on the ground. 

 As soon as tlie Ibirds cauglit sight of a human being it disappeared into the thickets 

 for a few minutes but then it appeared again coming oiit to look at what had 

 disturbed it. 



Its beautiful song is generally lieard in the mornings or in the evenings, but I 

 also heard it singing in the daytime, though never during the hottest hours. 



The typical Cittociyicla macrura Gm. inhabits Southern Tenasserim throughout 

 the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra to Siam and Cochin China. 



There are several other subspecies described of this bird such as Citlocincla 

 macrura tricolor Vieill. wliich inhabits India from Ceylon to Nepal, Assam, Cachar, 

 Tipperah and Manipur to Burma and Cittocincla macrura minor Swinh. which is dis- 

 tinguished from the former species by its smaller size. 



(^ 2/2 12 Den Chai. ? ^2 12 Den Cliai. cT 72 12 Den Chai. ^ ^-/i 1 2 Bång Hue Horn. 



Length=250 mm. Length = 190 mm. Length=265 mm. Length = 195 mm. 



Wing =91 » Wing == 83 » Wing = 89 » Wing = 82 » 



Tail =150 » Tail =111 ^ Tail =170 » Tail =102 » 



67. Monticola solitarius philippensis P. L. S. Mull. — As I was passing 

 through a dry forest near Non Luum 011 the Korat plateau I observed a Blue Rock 

 Thrush, which I refer to this species, but the bird was very shy and though I made 

 great efforts to get within shooting range I always failed. This species has according 

 to Harteet (Vögel der Paläarktischen Fauna) been found before in Siam during the j 

 winter time. 1 



¥nm. Ploceiclae. 



68. Uroloncha acuticauda Hodgs. — Hodgson's Munia was very common in 

 Central and Nortliern Siam, but I never observed it in the Eastern districts. Especi- 

 ally in the dry forests, in the old clearings and in the neighbourhood of plantations 

 it was of ten met with, generally in flocks. 



They breed in colonies and their pear-shaped nests are nearly always attached 

 to the bamboo-branches, where there would be a very great number of nests in one. 

 single bamboo. 



Near Kao Plyng I also observed these munias in a brushwood jungle near the 

 railway line. 



Length of 2 cj^d" = 116— 120 mm. Length of $=95 mm. 



Wing » 2 <^c^^ 48^ 51 » Wing =» ?=46,6. 



Tail » 2<^^-- 38—41,5» Tail » ?=34,5. 



