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A related race, Tropicoperdix chloropus cognacqi Delacoiir and 

 JabouiUe, occurs in Cocliincliina and southern Laos. These authors " 

 also state that it occurs in southeastern Siam, but I know of no speci- 

 mens from there. Two other forms of the species occur in French 

 Indo-China. 



CALOPERDIX OCULEA OCULEA (Tenuninck) 



Perdix oculea Temminck, Histoire naturelle g6n6rale des pigeons et des gallinac^s, 

 vol. 3, pp. 408, 732, 1815 (India; restricted by Robinson and Kloss to central 

 Malay Peninsula ^^). 



Four males, Tha Lo, Bandon, September 16-20, 1931. 



Dr. W, L. Abbott collected a male at Lay Song Hong, Trang, 

 October 11, 1896. He describes the soft parts as follows: Bill black, 

 extreme tip pale brown; feet pale green, claws pale bro^vn. 



Tliis is a southern form confined to the Malay Peninsula from 

 Pahang north to southwestern Siam. Gairdner ^^ reports it from the 

 Petchaburi District, which must be about its northern limit in Siam. 



One of Dr. Smith's males collected September 16 is a bird of the 

 year about half the size of the adult. It is in a plumage almost 

 identical to that of the adult, except for a few minor details. 



ROLLULUS ROULROUL (Scopoli) 



Phasianus roulroul Scopoli, Deliciae florae et faunae insubricae, pt. 2, p. 93, 

 1786 (Malacca). 



Three males and two females, Kao Soi Dao, Trang, January 24, 

 1934. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following specimens in the Malay 

 Peninsula: SLx males and thj-ee females, Trang (Lay Song Hong, 

 August 21-November 27, 1896; near Kao Nok Ram, Januarj^ 6, 1899); 

 one female, Endau River, east coast of Johore, July 16, 1901 ; and one 

 male, Rumpin River, Pahang, June 12, 1902. 



Dr. Abbott gives the following notes on the soft parts: Bill black, 

 deep red at base; naked orbital sldn vermilion; feet deep red, claws 

 horn brown; his brown. 



One male from Lay Song Hong, Trang, collected September 6 

 (no. 160099) is a bird of the year almost adult. It has already 

 acquired a plumage similar to the adult, except for the forehead and 

 lower parts; the latter has some mouse-gray feathers down the center 

 of the body from the chin to the vent mixed with the black, some of 

 these tipped with green; forehead deep mouse-gray to the posterior 

 border of the eye, only blackish around the base of the bill, no wliite 

 on the crown; red crest much shorter than in the adult. The long, 

 black, hauiike feathers springing from the forehead have appeared. 



" Oiseaux I'Indochlne Francaisc, vol. 1, p. 274, 1931. 

 »' Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 18, 1921. 

 « Journ. Nat. Uist. Soc. Siam, vol. 1, p. 151, 1915. 



