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p. 140) under the name of Scops lempiji. The type was ob- 

 tained in Java and as compared with specimens from that 

 locality the Malayan specimens are almost identical. In 

 Siarn, Burma and the Eastern Himalayas it is replaced by 

 Scops haklcamoena leltia Hodgs. which is very similar to 

 typical 8. bakkmnoena Penn. from Southern India but larger 

 t lian that form. 



79. Microhierax triugillarius Dräp. — 1 2 ^V± 1915. 

 Iris: brown, Wing: 103 mm. Towards the north the Black- 

 legged Falconet seems to be distributed at least as far as to 

 the Siamese Province of Bandon where Robinson obtained a 

 specimen at Ban Koh Klap. In the Journal of the Natural 

 History Soeiety of Siam Vol. I No. 1, p. 32 1914 Gairdner 

 writes in his account of the Fauna and Flora of the Ratburi 

 and Petchaburi Districts that »the tiny Black-legged Falconet 

 (Microhierax jringillarius) is fairly distributed». During my 

 stay in Siam 1911—1912 & 1914— 1915 I visited severalplaoes 

 both north and south of these districts but I never succeeded 

 in obtaining a single specimen of this fine bird. The Red- 

 legged Falconet {Microhierax ca^rulescens Linn.) is, on the 

 contrary, quite common in Siam and Gairdner's identi- 

 fication is most probably wrong and for the present retained 

 until more material from these same districts have been ob- 

 tained and properly investigated. 



80. Haliastur indus iiitermedius Gurney. — 1 J" V* 



1915; 1 ^ iVr> 1915; 1 $ 7i 1915; 1 2 imm. ^Vr. 1915. The 

 Braminy Kite is veiy abundant along the coasts and rivers 

 of the Malay Peninsula. It also extends for some distance 

 inland especialh^ where there are rice-fields. 



81. Spilornis pallidiis Wald. — 1 ^ 17, 1915; 1 J^ ^o/^ 

 1915. Iris: yellow. Wing: 355 & 363 mm. resp. Af ter 

 examining a large material from different parts of the Malay 

 Peninsula, Robinson & Kloss have come to the conclusion 

 that' the Serpent Eagles found in the Peninsula all belong 

 to the same form which originally was described from Borneo 

 under the above-mentioned name. Both my specimens agree 

 fairly well with the description of Spilornis pallidus Wald. 

 to which species I also have referred them. 



