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MYRISTICIVORA BICOLOR BICOLOR (Scopoli) 



Columba bicolor Scopoli, Deliciae florae et faunae insubricae, pt. 2, p. 94, 1786 

 (New Guinea). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected a male on South Twin Island, Mergui 

 Archipelago, January 27, 1900. 



This is a species that usually occurs on small islands off the coast of 

 larger land masses. There are few records for Siam, as the islands 

 probably have not been visited at the proper season. Robinson and 

 Kloss ^^ record it from the outlying islands of the Langkawi Group; 

 strictly speaking, this is not a Siamese record, but it is just over the 

 line. Williamson ^^ reports it from Chumpon Bay, Peninsular Siam; 

 Forty '* gives it for Koh Phai, Inner Gulf of Siam ; while Robinson and 

 Kloss ^* say the species also occurs on the Koh Sichang Group. 



The form ranges from small islands off the coast of southern Burma, 

 the Andamans, and Nicobars, through the PhiUppines and Sunda 

 Islands to New Guinea. 



CALOENAS NICOBARICA NICOBARICA (Linnaeus) 



Columba nicobarica Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 164, 1758 (Nicobar 

 Islands). 



Three males and four females, Koh Tao, December 27-31, 1926, 

 and September 18-20, 1928. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected two males on Pulo Nipis, Butang Islands, 

 western Malay Peninsula, December 13, 1899; and a male and female 

 on South Twin Island, Mergui Archipelago, January 27, 1900. He 

 gives the soft parts as: Iris brownish gray; bill and cere black; feet 

 dark purple, soles yellow, claws horny yellow. 



Wherever this bird is found, and it has quite an extensive range, it 

 seems to occur on the small islands off the main land niass or larger 

 islands. Robinson and Kloss ^® report it for Terutau ; and later " they 

 give it as common at certain seasons on the Islands off the west coast 

 of Siam ; on the east coast it occurs on the smaller islands of the Pahang 

 and Johore Archipelago and the Redang group off Trengganu. 



The species ranges from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands to the 

 Mergui Archipelago and small islands oft" the Malay Peninsula, 

 Sumatra, Cambodia, and Cochinchina, to the Philippines, and south- 

 ward to the Solomon Islands, C. n. pelewensis Finsch occurs in the 

 Pelew Islands. 



CHALCOPHAPS INDICA INDICA (Linnaeus) 



Columba indica Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 164, 1758 (India orientale). 



One immature female, Pak Chong, eastern Siam, February 23, 



1924; one male, Nong Khor near Sriracha, March 3, 1926; one male, 



"Ibis, 1910, p. 674. 



» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 2, p. 61, 1916. 



'< Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 2, p. 254, 1917. 



» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 34, 1921. 



w Ibis, 1910, p. 675. 



"Journ. Nat. Uist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 37, 1921. 



