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Apparently there are no records of Melano'perdix nigra nigra from 

 Siamese territory. Ogilvie-Grant ^° records it from as far north as 

 the Province of Wellesley, and Robinson *^ gives the range as the lati- 

 tude of Penang southward through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. 

 It is a lowland bird and will probably eventually be taken in southern 

 Peninsular Siam. As mentioned above, a closely related form occurs 

 in Borneo. 



EXCALFACTORIA CfflNENSIS CfflNENSIS (Linnaeus) 



Tetrao chinensis Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, p. 277, 1766 (China and the 

 Philippines; Nanking, China). 



One female, Bangnara, Patani, May 23, 1924. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took an adult male at the Packa River, Trengganu, 

 September 26, 1900. 



The form ranges from India east to southeastern China, south to 

 Tonkin, Annam, Siam, and Peninsular Siam to the Alalay States, 

 Formosa, Hainan, and Ceylon. 



Deignan ''^ had only one record for Chiengmai, in February; Her- 

 bert's ^^ collector found a nest and four incubated eggs at Samkok 

 (near Bangkok), July 17, and trapped the male and female; Robinson 

 and lOoss ** report that it occurs in Peninsular and southwestern Siam 

 in suitable localities, especially between Patani and Singora. 



The size and secretive habits of the birds probably account for the 

 meager records; it is probably much more plentiful than appearances 

 indicate. 



The species is divided into a number of forms, ranging from India 

 to Australia. 



ARBOROPmLA RUFOGULARIS TICKELLI (Hume) 



Arboricola tickelU Hume, The game birds of India, Burmah, and Ceylon, vol. 2, 

 p. 77, 18S0 (Muleyit). 



One male, Doi Angka, 8,000 feet, December 6, 1928; one male, Doi 

 Sutep, 5,600 feet, December 15, 1928; four males and two females, 

 Doi Nangka, April 24 and 27, 1931; one male and one female. Pang 

 Meton (Doi Nangka), May 5, 1931; one male, Doi Hua Mot, August 

 17, 1934. 



The last-mentioned specimen is an immature, much smaller than 

 the remainder of the series and differently marked. The chest is 

 spotted sparingly with small white spots; the throat is more heavily 

 spotted; the spots on the juguhim heavy and almost forming a bar 

 below the rufous of the throat; black spots in the wing larger, the 

 rufous almost lacking, and large huffy patches appear; less white on 

 the abdomen; wing, 128 mm. 



"Catalogue of the birds In the British Museum, vol. 22, p. 228. 1893. 

 <■ Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 1, no. 4, p. 127, 1906. 

 «Joiirn. Siam See. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. IfiS, 1931. 

 «Journ. Slam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 6, p. 33G, 1926. 

 «Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 19, 1921. 



