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iris pale yellow with an inner circle dark green. Female— bill horn 

 brown, dark above. In the adult female from Trang the iris is given 

 as white and the feet pale green. 



The range of the form is from middle Tenasserim through Penin- 

 sular Siam to Singapore, Sumatra, Banka, and Borneo. 



It is evidently not a common bird in the Malay Peninsula and is 

 erratic in its wanderings. It may be common at times and then 

 disappear. Robinson and Kloss ^^ state that the only specimens on 

 record from Peninsular Siam are two males and a female from Biserat, 

 Jalor, Patani; they had specimens also from Pelarit, Perlis. Mr. 

 Williamson's collector obtained two females and a male at Naihoot 

 near Langsuan. 



Psittinus cyanurus pontius Oberholser is confined to the Mentawi 

 Islands; and Psittinus abbotti Richmond, a related but very distinct 

 species, is found on Simalur, islands off the west coast of Sumatra. 



LORICULUS VERNALIS VEBNALIS (Sparrman) 



Psittacus vernalis Sparrman, Museum Carlsoniariura, 1787, p. 29 (no locality ^s). 



One male, Ban Nam Kien, April 21, 1930; one male. Ban Tarn 

 Dam, southeastern Siam, March 6, 1930; one male, Sriracha, Novem- 

 ber 7, 1924; five males and two females, Koh Chang, January 5-13, 

 1926, March 10, 1930; one female, Wat Kiriwong, Nakon Sritamarat, 

 July 25, 1928. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected two females in Trang (Prahmon, 

 March 15, 1896; Tyching, June 18, 1896) three females in Tenasserim 

 (Bok Pyin, February 14 and 17, 1900; Champang, December 13, 1903) ; 

 and five males on Sullivan Island, Mergui Archipelago, February 2-4, 

 1900. He records the colors of the soft parts as follows: Bill horny 

 orange; iris grayisli white; feet dull yellov/. 



The series from Sullivan Island average more yellowish on the chest 

 and back than the Siamese birds; unfortunately I have only one male 

 specimen from India for comparison. 



The form ranges from Sikkim to Annam, eastern Bengal, Burma, 

 Andamans, and all Siam, east to Cambodia, Cochinchina, Laos, 

 Annam, and Tonkin. In Siam proper it ranges pretty much all over 

 the country and down Peninsular Siam as far as Klong in Selangor, 

 according to Robinson and Kloss. ^° 



Deignan ^' states that it ascends Doi Sutep to 3,500 feet. 



5s Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. Ill, 1923. 



«« Stuart Baker, The Fauna of British India, Birds, ed. 2, vol. 4, p. 2i7, 1927, cives Cachar; Delacour and 

 Jabouille, Oiscau.x I'lndochine Francais, vol. 2, p. 160, 1931, Nepaul; both very unlikely localities at this 

 eiirly date. 



Mlbis, 191), p. 32. 



« Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl.. vol. 8, p. IGl, 1931. 



