BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 53 



CUNCUMA LEUCOGASTER (Gmelin) 



Falco leucogaster Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 1, p. 257, 1788 (no locality; 

 New South Wales, Mathews). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following: One adult male and one 

 adult female, Trang (Prahmon, March 27, 1896, and Trang, December 

 23, 1898); one adult female and one immature female, Mergui Archi- 

 pelago (Sullivan Island, February 5, 1900; Bentinck Island, March 8, 

 1900); and one immature female, Kamamun, Trengganu, October 1, 

 1900. 



Dr. Abbott gives the colors of the soft parts of an adult female from 

 Bentinck Island as follows: Iris dark brown; bill leaden, blackish at 

 tip; cere brownish; feet dirty wliite, claws black. Weight, dji pounds. 



This species inhabits the coast of India, Burma, southeastern Siam, 

 the Malay Peninsula, and southeast through the Philippine and Sunda 

 Islands to Australia. Robinson and Kloss *^ state that it is common 

 on the coast of the Malay Peninsula; Gyldenstolpe ^^ observed a pair 

 nesting at Koh Lak, but they were not obtained; Robinson ^° reports 

 it from Koh Samui and Koh Pennan, off Bandon; Robinson and 

 Kloss ^^ state that the two unmature specimens from Langkawi for- 

 merly identified as leucoryphus really belong to this species. 



This is a fish-eating eagle and does not as a rule wander far from 

 the coast. 



ICTHYOPHAGA ICHTHYAETUS ICHTHYAETUS (Horsfleld) 



Falco ichthyaetus Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, p. 136, 1821 

 (Java) . 



One adult male and one adult female. Bung Borapet, June 21 and 

 June 24, 1932. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following: Two adult males and one 

 adult female, Trang, 1896 (Prahmon, March 8 and April 10; Lay 

 Song Hong, November 8); one adult (unsexed) and one immature 

 (unsexed), Tanjong, Badak, Tenasserim, January 7, 1900, and 

 December 10, 1903; and one adult female, Rumpin River, Pahang, 

 July 21, 1903. 



He gives the soft parts as: Iris straw yellow or grayish yellow; cere 

 and base of bill dark leaden, black at tip, or cere and bill dull black, 

 horny blue at base of lower mandible; feet china, dirty, or greenish 

 white, claws black. Weight of three specimens: One adult male 

 from Trang, Z% pounds; one adult female from Trang, 5 pounds; and 

 one adult female from Pahang, 5 pounds. 



"Ibis, 1911, p. 23. 



" Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 128, 1910. 

 •0 Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 5, p. 141, 1915. 

 •1 Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 100, 1923. 



