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Family PH AS I AN I DAE: Quails, Pheasants, Peacocks 



FKANCOLINUS PINTADEANUS PHAYREI (Blyth) 



Perdix phayrei Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 12, p. 101, 1843 (Arracan). 



One female, Pak Chong, April 28, 1926; one female, Wang Kien, 

 Kanburi, March 12, 1934; two males, Vichienburi, Pasak River, 

 February 26, 1934. 



This form ranges from Arracan, Pegu, and Manipur to eastern 

 Burma, Siam proper. Tonkin, Annam, Cochincnina, lower Laos, 

 Cambodia, and Hainan. Gyldenstolpe ^^ says it occurs tnrougnout 

 Siam tnougn locally distributed and nowhere common; Deignan ^' 

 reports it uncommon at Chiengmai on the plain and on the lower 

 slopes of Doi Sutep, once as high as 4,600 feet; de Schauensee ^° took 

 specimens at Chiengmai, Bua Yoi, and Sriracha; Gairdner^^ records 

 it for Ratburi and Petchaburi, but Robinson and Kloss ^^ are rather 

 skeptical of its occurrence so far south in this direction; Chasen and 

 Kloss ^^ record it from the Raheng district, western Siam, and one of 

 the specimens was sent to the United States National Museum. A 

 female also was received from C. Boden Kloss, collected at Lat Bua 

 Kao, eastern Siam. 



A larger form, Francolinus pintadeanus pintadeanus (Scopoli), 

 occurs in southern China. 



RHIZOTHERA LONGIROSTRIS LONGIROSTRIS (Temmjnck) 



Perdix longirostris Temminck, Histoire naturelle g6n4rale des pigeons et des 

 gaUinac6s, vol. 3, pp. 323, 721, 1815 (Sumatra). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took an adult male of this bird at the Endau River, 

 east coast of Johore, July 15, 1901. 



He gives the soft parts as: Iris brown; eyelid reddish brown; bill 

 black; feet pale yellowish, claws horny yellow. 



The form ranges from Sumatra and the Malay States northward 

 through Peninsular Siam to southern Tenasserim and southwestern 

 Siam, Sumatra, and western Borneo. 



Herbert ^* was the first to record this bird from Siam, but he gave 

 no definite locality; later Stuart Baker ^^ examined the specimen and 

 gave the locality as lOong Ban Lai; Robinson and Kloss ^^ secured a 

 female at Tapli, Pakchan Estuary, and say that it is the second 

 record for Siam; de Schauensee^'' secured a male at Rajburi, which 



«» Ibis, 1920, p. 735. 



» Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 168, 1931. 



" Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 276, 1934. 



»i Journ. Nat. Hi.st. Soc. Siam, vol. 1, p. 151, 1915. 



M Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 17, 1921. 



" Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 7, p. 153, 1923. 



MJourn. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 2, p. 58, 1916. 



"Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol 4, p. 35, 1920. 



MJourn. Nat. ULst. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 17, 1921. 



»'Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 276, 1934. 



