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British Museum. Gairdner ^^ reports it from the Ratburi and Pet- 

 chaburi Districts, Gyldenstolpe ^^ records a male from Hue Sai, Janu- 

 ary 1915. Robinson ^* reports it common on Koh Muk, Trang, during 

 the three days their party was there; it came in at dusk to roost in 

 the tall mangroves, probably from the mainland. 



Kloss ^^ records it from Koh Lak ; Robinson and Kloss ^* from Junk- 

 seylon (Salanga or Puket) ; Williamson ^^ records it from Koh Phra, 

 Inner Gulf of Siam. Thus, it has been taken from Trang northward 

 in the Peninsula to the southwestern part and thence to the south- 

 eastern and eastern part of the country. 



The species ranges from eastern Bengal to Assam, Burma, Penin- 

 sular and eastern Siam and east to Laos and south Annam. In Siam 

 it does not appear to be a common species, and it is uncertain whether 

 it is resident in the Peninsula. 



The species is often put in a separate genus (Alsocomus), but the 

 characters relied upon in doing so, it seems to me, do not warrant 

 such action. If such slight characters are recognized, the genus 

 Columba as generally used would have to be broken up into numerous 

 genera, without a consequent gain. 



STREPTOPELIA CHINENSIS TIGRINA (Tcitiminck) 



Columha tigrina Temminck, Histoire natiirelle g^nerale des pigeons et des gal- 

 linac6s, vol. 1, p. 94, pi. 43, 1808-11 (type locality as fixed by Hartert, Java). 



Two males. Ban Nam Kien, Nan, April 21-22, 1930; one male, 

 Rayasothon, March 23, 1929; one male. Ban Nakae, November 4, 

 1929; one male, Mae Hong Sorn, January 6, 1933; one male, Mekhan, 

 February 1, 1932; three males, Aranya, July 13-17, 1930; one male, 

 Knong Phra, April 14, 1929; one male and one female, Bangkok, Jan- 

 uary 17 and February 7, 1924; two females. Bung Borapet, June 28, 

 1932; one, not sexed, Muang Kanburi, April 9, 1928; one male, Nong 

 Mong, Krabin, August 28, 1925; one male, Sikeu, near Korat, Feb- 

 ruary 17, 1926; one male, Mong Khor, near Sriracha, September 28, 

 1925; one male, Klong Yai, Sriracha, July 24, 1932; one male and one 

 female, Pak Chong, December 9, 1929 ; one male, Tha Chang, near Pak 

 Chong, November 23, 1925; two males and one female, Koh Chang, 

 January 7-10, 1926; one female, Pran, April 3, 1931; one female, 

 Koh Pangan, July 31, 1931; one male and one female, Nakon Srita- 

 marat, September 26, 1926, and March 16, 1929; one male and one 

 female, Patalung, July 9, 1929. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Sinm, vol. 1, pp. 39, 151, 1914-15. 



« Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 55, no. 2, p. 151, 1916. 



'* Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 136, 1917. 



"■ Ibis, 1918, p. 83. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 90, 1919. 



>' Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 31, 1918. 



