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GALLINULA CHLOROPUS INDICUS BIyth 



Gallinula chloropusl var. indicus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 11, p. 887, 

 1842 (Calcutta, Bengal). 



Two males, Potaram, February 6 and 7, 192G; 12 males and 7 

 females, Bung Borapet, June 23, 1932, March 23-28, 1933; one male, 

 Bung Tabgrit, March 27, 1933; one male, Koh Lak, June 15, 1933. 



This form of gallinule probably occurs all over Siam proper. 

 Deignan ^^ states that at Chiengmai it occurs locally from December 

 to March; tliis would indicate that it is only a winter visitor there, 

 and evidently farther south the resident birds are augmented in the 

 cold season by an influx from the north. De Schauensee ^^ took a male 

 at Meldong, April 4. 



The form ranges from Kashmir and southern Tibet to southern 

 India, Ceylon, Burma, southern and eastern China, Japan, Indo- 

 China, and Siam. 



PORPHYRIO POLIOCEPHALUS POLIOCEPHALUS (Latham) 



Gallinula poliocephala Latham, Index ornithologicus, Suppl., p. Ixvlii, 1801 

 (India). 



One male. Bang Than, August 11, 1923; two males and two females. 

 Bung Borapet, June 25, 27, 1932, March 23 and 28, 1933. 



The four specimens from Bung Borapet are fairly uniform in having 

 the wings a more or less uniform motmot blue, while the male from 

 Bang Than has the wing blackish with a bluish green wash and the 

 lesser wing coverts lighter and brighter, approaching the color of the 

 chest, which is near China blue as in viridis; the back is dark purplish 

 blue, however. Both viridis and poliocephalus evidently occur together 

 during the breeding season. 



Chasen and Kloss ^^ record it from the Kaheng District, and the 

 female from this collection is now in the United States National 

 Museum; Deignan ^° reports it common during the rains on the great 

 marshes between Chiengmai and Lampoon; Gairdner's ^^ records for 

 the Ratburi and Petchaburi Districts are open to doubt ;Gyldenstolpe^* 

 shot a male at Chieng Hai; Herbert's ^^ description of the eggs from 

 Hua Takliae taken July 15, is open to doubt unless the parent was 

 taken. 



This form ranges from Ceylon to India, Burma, Tenasserim, and 

 northern and central Siam. 



" Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Uist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 169, 1931. 



" Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, p. 578, 1928. 



» Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 7, p. l.'JS, 1928. 



"Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Uist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 109, 1931. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 1, pp. 31, 152, 1914-15. 



" Kungl. Svenslca Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 149, 1916. 



33 Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol 6, p. 343, 1926. 



