76 BULLETIN 17 2, UIS^ITED STATES NxVTIOKAL MUSEUM 



TUKNIX SUSCITATOR ATROGULARIS (Eyton) 



Hemipodius alrogularis Eyton', Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1839, p. 107 (Malacca). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected a single female at the Rumpin River, 

 Pahang, June 19, 1902. He records the soft parts as: Iris straw-j^ellow; 

 feet pale leaden. 



The only noticeable difference between this specimen and the 

 series of interrumpens is that the black throat patch in the Pahang 

 bird appears to be more extensive. 



The range of this form is given as the Malay Peninsula from the 

 Province of Wellesley southward and northern Sumatra. 



Family GRUIDAE: Cranes 



ANTIGONE ANTIGONE SHARPH (Blanford) 



Grus (Antigone) sharpii Blanford, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 5, p. 7, 1895 

 (Burma). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott writes that this variety of sarus is common at 

 two or three places in Trang. None was shot, but they are often 

 kept alive by the natives and grow exceedingly tame. 



Robinson and Kloss ^ state that they observed this form in the 

 ricefields near Sawi Bay, south of Cliumpong, in April 1919 ; Gairdner * 

 records it from the Ratburi and Petchaburi Districts. Gyldenstolpe ' 

 states that it is generally distributed over the whole country and that 

 wliile he was camped at Muang Fang, northwestern Siam, a native 

 brought him a light-set egg, which was taken from a nest in the vicinity 

 of the camp ; there was only the one egg in the nest. The egg was 

 bluish white without any spots. Deignan ^° states that it occurs at 

 Chiengmai from December to March; de Schauensee " took a male 10 

 kilometers north of Ban Jong, northern Siam, January 14, and states 

 that it is very rare about Chiengmai but common at Chieng Rai and 

 Chieng Sen, where the country is more suitable for them. 



It ranges from eastern Assam and Burma to Siam and Cochinchina. 



Family RALLIDAE: Rails, Coots, Gallinules 



HYPOTAENIDIA STRIATA ALBIVENTRIS (Swainson) 



Rallus albiventris Swainson, Animals in menageries, p. 337, 1838 (India). 



One male and two females, Bangkok, February 4, 1924, June 3^ 

 1926, and February 3, 1929; one male. Bung Borapet, June 27, 1932; 

 one female, Nakon Sritamarat, Peninsular Siam, August 30, 1924, 



' Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 72, 1921. 



8 Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam. vol. 1, pp. 30, 152, 1914-15. 



• Kungl. Svcnska Vet.-Akad. llandl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 141, 1916. 



10 Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 170, 1931. 



" Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 81, p. 583, 1930. 



