BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 45 



PERNIS APIVORUS PTILORHYNCHUS (Temminck) 



Falco ptilorhynchus Temminck, Nouveau recueil de planches colorizes d'oiseaux, 

 livr. 8, pi. 44, 1821 (Java and Sumatra; in text to pi. 270, Java). 



One male, Tha Chang, Pak Chong, March 15, 1927, in immature 

 plumage (wing, 363 mm); one male, Pak Chong, May 4, 1926, huffy- 

 brown below, with narrow black shaft streaks (wing, 375 mm). 

 Both specimens are without a crest. 



One immature female was collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott at Lay 

 Song Hong, Trang, October 30, 1896. This specimen is in an almost 

 uniform cinnamon-buff plumage below, the feathers of the belly with 

 lighter edgings; there are no facial stripes whatever; the crest is long 

 and black; wing, 395 mm. 



This form ranges from Borneo, Java, and Sumatra to the Malay 

 States, Peninsular and eastern Siam, and southern Tenasserim. It 

 ranges throughout the Malay Peninsula but does not seem to be 

 common anywhere. The various plumages are not well understood. 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ took a young male at Koh Lak, January 14, 1915. 

 Robinson ^^ recorded a specimen from Lem Ngob, southeastern 

 Siam, the only record I have seen from that part of the country. 

 Robinson and Ivloss ^^ list an immature female from Tapli, Pakchan, 

 March 8, 1919. 



MILVUS MIGRANS GOVINDA Sykes 



Milvus govinda Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1832, p. 81 (Deccan). 



One female, Nong Kae, May 7, 1929; one male, Sam Roi Yot, 

 November 17, 1932. 



This form ranges from India to Burma, Siam, and Southern Indo- 

 China; rarely to the Malay Peninsula. 



This is the resident form of kite in Siam. Herbert ^^ reports it 

 breeding on the river north of Bangkok, laying two or occasionally 

 three eggs in January and February; Robinson and Kloss ®° state that 

 it is a very rare visitor to the Malay Peninsula, where it has been 

 taken as far south as near Taping, Perak, in November. 



This species can be distinguished from M. lineatus by its smaller 

 size. 



»« Kungl. Svenska Vot.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2. p. 130, 1916. 



" Ibis, 1915, p 728. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 94, 1923. 



" Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 6, p. 331, 1926. 



«» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, 1023, p. 101. 



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