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Pang, western Siam; de Schauensee ^® from Bangkok, March 1, and 

 later ^® from the same place, Chiengmai, and Hua Mak; Stuart Baker" 

 from Krabin ; Robinson and Kloss ^ from Nong Kok, Ghirbi, and islet 

 off Pulo Panjang; earlier ^^ they had recorded it from Trang; Robinson^" 

 reports it from Pulo Dayang Bunting, Langkawi Group, and Pulo 

 Lontar, also Ko Khan, Trang. 



This large hawk cuckoo ranges in the Himalayas from Kashmir 

 to eastern Assam and southern China as far north as the Yangtze; 

 southward it reaches Tonkin, Annam, Cochinchina, Laos, Burma, 

 Siam, and down Peninsular Siam to the Malay States, the Philippine 

 Islands, Borneo, and Java. It is resident in southern China, but in 

 the Yangtze Valley it migrates south in winter. Whether it is resi- 

 dent in northern Siam I do not know, but in Peninsular Siam and 

 farther south it is probably only a winter visitor. It has been recorded 

 from nearly all parts of Siam, but all the records seem to be of speci- 

 mens taken in winter or earlj' in spring. 



HIEROCOCCYX FUGAX FUGAX (Horsfleld) 



Cuculus fugaxIloRSFiEhD, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, p. 178, 1821 (Java). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected an immature male at Tyching, Trang, 

 July 22, 1896. 



He describes the soft parts as: Bill black, greenish yellow at base; 

 orbital skin greenish yellow; feet pale yellow. 



Dr. Abbott took an older male on Pulo Bintang Rhio (Archipelago), 

 August 6, 1902. The pileum and cheeks on this specimen were be- 

 coming slate gray; the upperparts, which are clove broAVTi, have the 

 buffy edges to the feathers much reduced; below there are no sj)ots, 

 only streaks of blackish edged with russet; both specimens have a 

 small white patch at the base of the crest on the nape. Fourth outer 

 primary a little longer than the third. Bill from nostril, 17 mm. 



The Trang specimen is a younger bird about fully grown but still 

 in an early immature plumage. The pileum and upper back are 

 clove brown with narrow huffish fringes to the feathers; breast and 

 belly with rhomboid blackish spots; cheeks sooty; chin white streaked 

 with sooty; fourth outer primary a little longer than the third; bill 

 from nostril, 18 mm. 



According to Chasen and Kloss's '^ notes on this species, the above 

 specimens belong to //. /. jugax. They say that it is the resident 

 form in Peninsular Siam from Bandon south to the IVIalay States. 

 They examined specimens from Bandon and Nakon Sritamarat in 



•• Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, p. 573, 1928. 



•» Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phihulolphia, vol. 80, p. 257, 1934. 



•' Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 438, 1919. 



«9 Ibid., p. 98. 



•« Ibis, 1911, p. 40. 



" Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 157, 1917. 



" Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 13, p. 278, 1927. 



