BIRDS FROM SIAJM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 47 



Dr. Smith gives the color of the soft parts as: Iris, golden-yellow; 

 bill plumbeous; cere green; feet and legs yellow. 



The following specimens collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott are in the 

 United States National Museum: One adult male, Hastings Island, 

 December 12, 1900, and one adult male and one adult female, High 

 Island, December 31, 1900, both islands in the Mergui Archipelago; 

 one adult and one immature female, Tanjong Badak, January 11, 

 1900; one adult male and one adult female, Champang, December 13, 

 14, 1903; one adult female, Telok Krang, February 15, 1904, the 

 three latter in southern Tenasserim; one immature female, Trang, 

 Peninsular Siam, January 28, 1899. 



The females are darker and more slaty than the males. The two 

 adult males from Siam and a male from Daban, southern Annam, are 

 much lighter above than the same sex from Tenasserim, but this does 

 not seem to hold in the females, and it may be only individual vari- 

 ation. 



This is a common resident all over Siam proper and down Peninsular 

 Siam at least to Trang, or somewhat farther south. The form ranges 

 from southern Assam to Siam, southern China, Indo-China, and the 

 Malay Peninsula. 



ACCIPITER AFFINIS Hodgson 



Accipiter affinis Hodgson, Bengal Sporting Mag., new ser., vol. 8, p. 179, 1836 



(Nepal). 



One adult female, Bangkok, October 16, 1924; one immature 

 female, Lam Klong Lang, Pak Jong, June 5, 1925; one immature male, 

 Lat Bua Kao, July 29, 1929. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott purchased in Penang an unsexed specimen said 

 to have been shot in the Province of Wellesley ; wing, 189 mm. 



The United States National Museum possesses a male of typical 

 Accipiter virgatus from Java, and it is so totally different from affinis 

 or anything from the continent that I quite agree with Robinson and 

 Kloss's remarks under A. gularis ^^ that no resident form of virgatus 

 occurs on the mainland. An adult male of affinis from Mount Omei, 

 Szechwan, in the United States National Museum is not so dark 

 above as virgatus; below the breast is not quite so richly colored, and 

 the bars on the belly and tibia are grayish not blackish or very dark 

 brown, as in virgatus; the latter is much smaller. The wing in male 

 virgatus measures 146 mm; in affinis from Szechwan, 167 mm. 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ records a specimen from Khun Tan as A. virgatus; 

 Robinson^* records it from Koh Kut and Koh Rang; Baker ^* a 

 female from Chan Teuk; Robinson and Kloss record an adult 



«Uourn. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 104, 1923. 

 M Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 1, p. 234, 1915. 

 M Ibis, 1915, p. 728. 

 " Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 4, p. 29. 1920. 



