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DISSOURA EPISCOPUS EPISCOPUS (Boddaert) 



Arden episcopus Boddaert, Table des planches enlumin^ez d'histoire naturelle, 

 p. 54, 1783 (India). 



One adult male, Bandon, January 5, 1927; one adult male, Kao 

 Soi Dao, Trang, January 9, 1934. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took the following: Two adult males, one adult 

 female, and one unsexed, Trang (Prahmon, April 1, 1896; Tyching, 

 July 21, 1896; Lay vSong Hong, October 26, 1896, and January 21, 

 1897); and two males and one female, Tenasserim (Bok Pyin, Feb- 

 ruary 12, 1900; Champang, December 14, 1903; Tanjong Badak, 

 March 26, 1904). 



Dr. Abbott gives the following notes: Iris red, sclerotic yellow; 

 feet and legs dull brownish red; bill black, red at tip and along com- 

 missure; naked skin about head black; gular pouch black. Stomach 

 of a male (no. 153617) contained small crabs, jBsh, and grasshoppers. 

 Weight of a male from Prahmon, Trang, 4% pounds; of a male from 

 Bok Pyin, Tenasserim, 5K pounds. The female from Tanjong 

 Badak, March 26, was building a nest when shot. 



Dissoura episcopus neglecta Finsch is a smaller race with a differ- 

 ently colored bill and is confined to the Sunda Islands from Java 

 east to Sumbawa and Celebes, as I have already pointed out.^ It 

 seems very doubtful whether it occurs on the mainland at all. The 

 naked skin on the sides of the neck is an age character and not diag- 

 nostic of the race as claimed by Gyldenstolpe.* I have not, however, 

 examined any specimens from north of Tenasserim. 



D. episcopus episcopus ranges over practically all India and cast to 

 Indo-China and south in the Malay Peninsula to Kedah. It also 

 occurs in the Philippines in a more or less intermediate form. 



Grant ^ records it from Patani; Robinson^ from Pulo Langkawi 

 and Trang, Bandon,^ Koh Samui^; Robinson and Kloss® from Nong 

 Kok, Ghirbi; Gairdner ^°from Ratburi and Petchaburi; Gyldenstolpe " 

 from Sakerat and Aluang Pai, Korat Plateau, and Tha Law, Central 

 Siam; and later ^^ he took a male at Hat Sanuk and found it not rare 

 at Koh Lak; Lowe '^ reports it plentiful on the Meping in March; 

 Robinson and Kloss ^* state that it has not been found south of the 



» Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 64, art. 16, p. 28, 1924. 



« Ibis, 1920, p. 766. 



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



« Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 4, p. 130, 1909. 



' Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 5, p. 88, 1915. 



• Ibid., p. 142. 



• Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 91, 1919. 



1' Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 1, pp. 30, 152, 1914-15. 



" Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 50, no. 8, p. 72, 1913. 



" Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Uandl., vol. 60, no. 2, p. 139, 1916. 



w Ibis, 1933. 491. 



"Ibis, 1911, 16. 



