118 bulleti:n^ 172, united states national museum 



and October 21, 1926; one adult male, Koh Pangan, July 31, 1931; 

 one adult male, Koh Samui, August 7, 1931. 



The following specimens collected by or received from Dr. W. L. 

 Abbott are in the United States National Museum: Two females, 

 Trang (Prahmon, April 2, and Tyching, June 27, 1896); one male, 

 Kemamun River, Trengganu, October 2, 1900; two females, Tanjong 

 Kalong, Singapore, January 27 and March 20, 1900. He describes 

 the soft colors as: Iris blue or bluish white; naked skin about orbit 

 blue or greenish blue; bill and cere leaden blue; front of tarsus and 

 top of toes dark purple, back or tarsus and soles fleshy. 



Ogilvie-Grant ** records it from Patani; Robinson*" from Pulo 

 Lontar ; Baker *^ from Klong Wang Hip ; Robinson and Kloss *^ from 

 Nong Kok, Gliirbi. Robinson and Kloss *^ also state that it is very 

 common in open spaces in Peninsular Siam, to which all the above 

 citations pertain, the bird becoming scarcer farther north. Herbert *' 

 says that it is supposed to have been introduced at Bangkok, where it 

 is now thoroughly established; a nest and eggs were found at the 

 Sports Club in June and another at Supatoom. Deignan ^^ found it 

 common at one locality on the plain at Chiengmai. Later ^' he 

 found it not uncommon at Cliiengmai, where it was said to have been 

 introduced from Java. 



The form ranges from Java to the Malay States and northward 

 through Peninsular Siam to southern Tenasserim and northern Siam. 



Family PSITTACIDAE: Parrots, Macaws 



PSITTACULA EUPATRIA SIAMENSIS (Kloss) 



Palaeornis eupataria siamensis Kloss, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 2, p. 219, 

 1917 (Lat Bua Kao, eastern Siam). 



One male, Chomtong, northern Siam, November 29, 1928; one im- 

 mature male, Nakon Panom, March 8, 1929; one female, Konken, 

 March 21, 1929; one male, Noan Wat, February 14, 1929; one male 

 and one female, Muang Kanburi, April 7, 1928; one male, Vichienburi, 

 February 27, 1934. 



I am unable to decide whether there is more than one form of this 

 parrot occurring in Siam, as my material is m.uch too scant3^ The 

 male from Chomtong is a fully adult bird, and the nape is washed 

 strongly with pale caerulean blue and the neck band is grenadine 

 pink; in the male from Noan Wat the nape is much more Hghtly 



" Faspiciili Malayenses, pt. 3, p. 121, 1905. 



*» Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 137, 1917. 



«« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 4, p. 32, 1920. 



« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 90, 1919. 



« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 36, 1921. 



" Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 6, p. 335, 1926. 



M Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. Ifi7, 1931. 



»i Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 10, p. 86, 1936. 



