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ALCEDO ATTHIS BENGALENSIS Gmelin 



Alcedo bcngalensis Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 450, 1788 (Bengal). 



One male, Sam Roi Yot, November 9, 1932; four males and two 

 females, Bung Borapet, March 22, 1933; one male, Potaram, January 

 23, 1927; two males and five females, Bangkok, October 13, 1923; 

 January 19, 1924, October 26-28, November 2, and December 28, 

 1925, and September 23, 1930; one female, Lem Sing, March 15, 1930; 

 one female, Nong Khor, near Sriracha, September 27, 1925; one male, 

 Kao Seming, Krat, October 12, 1928; one unsexed, Koh Chang, 

 January 13, 1926; one male, Petchabun, February 14, 1934; one female, 

 Koh Tao, off Bandon, September 19, 1928; five males, five females, 

 and one unsexed, Nakon Sritamarat, September 16-October 8, 1926. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following: One male, four females, 

 and one unsexed, Trang (Prahmon, March 8-19, 1896 ; Lay Song Hong, 

 September 28, 1896; Trang, January 1, 1899); one female, Pulo Lada, 

 Langkawi Group, November 30, 1899; one male and two females, 

 Tanjong Kalong, Singapore, October 29, 1899, March 2, 1900 (these 

 three specim.ens taken by C. Boden Kloss) ; one female, Tanjong Dun- 

 gun, Trengganu, September 20, 1900; one male and two females, 

 Tenasserim (Maliwun, March 18, 1900; Victoria Point, March 30, 

 31, 1900); and one female, Loughborough Island, Mergui Archipelago, 

 January 25, 1900. 



Dr. Abbott gives the soft parts of the male as: Iris dark brown; 

 bill black; feet red; claws horny brown; the female differs in having 

 the lower mandible red or orange. 



This form has an immense range extending from India east to 

 Assam, Burma, China, Korea, and Japan, south to Indo-China, Siam, 

 Peninsular Siam, the Malay States, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and the 

 Philippines. 



The form is a common resident bird, in suitable localities, all over 

 Siam and on the islands off the coast. In the northern part of its 

 range it is migratory or partially so. 



Alcedo atthis pallasii Reichenbach, a somewhat larger and paler 

 form, breeds in Kashmir and Turkestan and extends westward to 

 Transcaspia. It moves south of its breeding range in winter apparently 

 but has not been taken east of the northwest provinces of India. 



ALCEDO MENINTING MENINTING Horsfield 



Alcedo meninting Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, p. 172, 1821 

 (Java). 



One male, Nakon Sritamarat, October 1, 1926; one female, Sichol, 

 Bandon, May 19, 1930. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected a pair at Chong, Trang, January 23-24, 

 1897, and an unsexed specimen on Singapore Island, ]May 27, 1899. 

 He describes the soft parts of the male as: Iris dark browTi; bill black. 



