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Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following: Two males and one female 

 in 1899 in Trang (Kok Sai, January 24; Naldua, March 2); and one 

 female, Kamamun River, Trengganu, October 2, 1900, 



The species ranges from Burma to Siam, and French Indo-China, 

 and down Peninsular Siam to the Malay States and Java. It appar- 

 ently is not uncommon in suitable localites all over Siam proper and 

 Peninsular Siam. 



Robinson and Kloss's ®^ record of Pavo cristatus from Nong Kok, 

 Ghirbi, Peninsular Siam, is evidently a slip of the pen, as it is not 

 mentioned in their later paper, ^'^ 



ARGUSIANUS ARGUS ARGUS (Linnaeus) 



Phasianus argus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, p. 272, 1766 (Chinese Tartary; 

 Malacca, as fixed by Hartert "). 



One adult male, Sichol, Bandon, May 21, 1930. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following: Seven males and sLx 

 females in Trang (Lay Song Hong, August 22, December 8, 1896; 

 Kao Soi Dao, 2,000 feet, February 16, 20, 1899); two males and one 

 female at Telok Besar, Tenasserim, February 27 and March 16, 1904. 



Dr. Abbott gives the following on the soft parts (in the males): Iris 

 brown; head dull blue; bill horny white, yellowish above and bluish 

 about nostrils; feet red, soles whitish, claws horny white. He gives 

 the weights of four males from Trang as 4K, 5, 5K, and 5% pounds; of 

 two females from Trang as 3 and 3K pounds. The two males from 

 Tenasserim weighed 6 pounds each; the one female, 3% pounds. 



The range of this bird is from southwestern Siam and southern 

 Tenasserim southward through Peninsular Siam to the Malay States 

 and Sumatra, 



Gyldenstolpe ®^ reports flushing one west of Koh Lak; this is about 

 as far north in this direction of which there are any records. Farther 

 south in the Malay Peninsula it is a common bird in suitable localities. 



A related form, Argusianus argus grayi (Elliot), occurs in Borneo. 



Family TURNICIDAE: Hemipodes 



TURNIX TANKI BLANFORDII BIyth 



Turnix hlnnjordii Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc, Bengal, vol. 32, p. SO, 1863 (Burma 

 and Arrakan; type from Thayetmyo). 



One male and one female, Bangkok, March 6 and April 4, 1924; 

 one fomnle, Nan, April 13, 1930; one male, Muek Lek, April 16, 1933. 



The form ranges from southern Ussuriland and Manchuria south 

 ■over eastern and southern China to Assam, Burma, Siam proper, 

 Tonkin, Annam, Cochinchma, Laos, and Cambodia, 



« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 89, 1919, 



»« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 23, 1921. 



»f Nov. Zool., vol. 9, p. 538, 1902. 



w Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad, Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 158, 1916. 



