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Peninsular Siam. It also occurs in Borneo and Java, as well as the 

 Philippines. 



Not much seems to be known concerning this form. As most of 

 the records are faulty, I shall not give them. 



HIEROCOCCYX FUGAX NISICOLOR (Blyth) 



Cuculus nisicolor Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 12, p. 943, 1843 (Nepal). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected one female, Kao Soi Dao, 1,000 feet, 

 Trang, Februaiy 11, 1899. 



This specimen has the streaked lower parts of the immature. The 

 third outer primary is the longest; bill from nostril, 16.5 mm. These 

 characters place it in this migratory form according to Chasen and 

 and Ivloss's notes.'^^ They say they have examined specimens from 

 Pak Chong, eastern Siam (May); Pulo Terutau (December); Pido 

 Rumpia, Sembilan Islands, Straits of Malacca (November, Decem- 

 ber); One Fathom Bank, Straits of Malacca (November); Pulo 

 Jemar, Aroa Islands, Straits of Malacca (November); Pahang (De- 

 cember); Singapore (January). 



The range of this form is Nepal, Sikkim, Assam, eastern Bengal, 

 Burma, Siam, southern Annam, Pulo Condore, and south through 

 Peninsular Siam to the Malay States. Probably it is onlj'^ a summer 

 resident in the north, migrating south in the winter season. 



mEROCOCCYX VAGANS (S. Muller) 



Cuculus vagans S. Muller, Verhandelingen over de natuurlijke Geschiedenis der 

 Nederlandsche overzeesche bezittingen . . . , p. 233, note, 1845 (Java). 



One male, Tha Lo, Bandon, September 18, 1931; one male, Klong 

 Yai, Sriracha, July 25, 1932. 



August Muller ^^ records a specimen taken on the island of Puket 

 (Salanga) ; Stuart Baker '^* records one from Maprit, Peninsular Siam, in 

 Herbert's collection; Robinson and Kloss " say that they have a few 

 specimens from various parts of the Malay Peninsula but mention 

 no specific localities. 



Dr. Smith's specimen from Klong Yai, Sriracha, is the farthest east 

 the species has been taken to date. It is larger than the Bandon male 

 listed above, but only 2 mm more than the maximum given by Stuart 

 Baker. The wing in the Bandon specimen measures 137.5 mm; that 

 from Sriracha, 155 mm. 



The species ranges from Tenasserim to southeastern and Peninsular 

 Siam south to the Malay States, Java, and Borneo. 



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

 " Die Ornis der Insel Salauga, p. 53, 1882 

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

 '•Journ. Nat. Uist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 151. 1923. 



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