54 BULLETIN 17 2, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



This species is said to be generally distributed in Siam in suitable 

 localities. As a good part of its food is fish, it is usually found near 

 water. 



The form ranges from India through Assam, Burma, French Indo- 

 China, and Siam to the Philippines and the Greater Sunda Islands as 

 far as Celebes. 



SARCOGYPS CALVUS (Scopoli) 



Vultur calvus Scopoli, Deliciae florae et faunae insubricae, pt. 2, p. 85, 1786 

 (Pondicherry). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected one male at Prahmon, Trang, April 4, 

 1896; and one female, Trang, February 11, 1897. 



He gives the soft parts as: Male — iris straw color, finely mottled 

 with black; bill and wattles black; naked head and cere purplish red; 

 feet pale pink flesh color, claws black. Female — Iris dusky brown; 

 bill and claws black; cere, head, and wattles dull red; feet and mottling 

 in front of thighs red. The weight of the m^ale is given as 8 pounds; 

 that of the female as 10 pounds. 



The female has the inner secondaries faded to a creamy white sub- 

 terminally, this white area much frayed and in several of the feathers 

 only a small spatula of the black tip remaining. The male, though 

 taken later in the year, is in unworn and unfaded plumage. 



This species ranges throughout India and Burma, east to Siam, and 

 Indo-China, south through Peninsular Siam to the Malay States. 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ in recording it from Koh Lak states that it is most 

 abundant along the coast but that it occurs also in the central and 

 northern parts of the country; Ogilvie-Grant ^^ records it from Patani; 

 Deignan ^* reports it common at Chiengmai; Herbert ^^ found it breed- 

 ing around Bangkok, depositing its single egg by the end of January 

 or early in February. 



Apparently this is a common species all over Siam. 



PSEUDOGYPS BENGALENSIS (Gmelin) 



Vultur bengalensis Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 245, 1788 (Bengal). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected one male at Tyching, Trang, April 23, 

 1896; and one immature female. Lay Song Hong, Trang, no date. 



He gives the color of the soft parts as: Male — iris dark brown; head 

 and neck slaty black ; bill and cere black, culmen pale greenish horny ; 

 feet dull black, claws black. Immature female — iiis dark brown; 

 head and neck muddy brown; two patches on lower part of neck 

 behind bluish; cere dull black; lower mandible dull dark horn bro\vn; 

 upper mandible dark brownish black, black at tip, a broad greenish 



»2 Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 132, 1916. 



M Fasciculi Malayenses, pt. 3, p. 115, 1905. 



»< Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 161, 1031. 



" Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hi.st. Suppl., vol. 6, p. 329, 1926. 



