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Robinson and Kloss,^ however, assign all Peninsular birds north of 

 Patani to the northern form. I think they are intermediate, but no 

 specimens from the Malay States have been available for examination. 



Four males collected by Dr. Smith in southeastern Siam measure: 

 Wing, 135.5-142.5 (138.7); tail, 122-138 (128.6); culmen, 20-21 (20.4 

 mm). 



Gyldenstolpe ^'^ took a female at Ban Meh Na, a small village at the 

 foot of Chiengdao Mountain in northern Siam, June 24; Deignan ^^ 

 reports it occasionally seen in March, August, and September at 

 Chiengmai; de Schauensee *^ records it from Bangkok, March 27; 

 Baker" from Krabin and Pak Chong; Kloss ^'^ from Koh Lak, south- 

 western Siam. Judged from the records, the form is not a common 

 bird in Siam proper. 



The form ranges from Upper India, Assam, Burma, Yunnan, and 

 Siam to Laos, Tonkin, Annam, Cochincliina, Cambodia, and southern 

 China. In Peninsular Siam it ranges as far south as latitude 10° N., 

 according to Stuart Baker. ^^ 



SURNICULUS LUGUBRIS BARUSSARUM Oberholser 



Surniculus lugubris barussarum Oberholser, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., vol. 60, 



no. 7, p. 5, 1912 (Tana Bala Island, Batu Islands). 

 Surniculus lugubris brachyurus Stresemann, Nov. Zool., vol. 20, p. 340, 1913 



(Bentong, Pahang). 



One male, Koh Samui, Bandon, August 7, 1931. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took one male at Tyching, Trang, July 1, 1896; 

 one male and one female, Trang, January 26 and 29, 1899. He de- 

 scribes the soft parts as follows: Iris dark brown; biU black; feet leaden 

 blue. 



Robinson and Kloss ^^ give it as a common resident throughout the 

 Malay Peninsula. The birds from north of the Malay States are 

 probably intermediate, but on geographic grounds I am placing them 

 with the southern form. 



Three males from Trang (2) and Bandon (1) measure: Wing, 127- 

 135 (131); tail, 114.5-131 (120.2); culmen, 19.5-21 (20.2 mm). 



Ogilvie-Grant ^^ has recorded it from Patani, and from there it is 

 found as far north as Bandon. The form ranges from the extreme 

 southern Malay States north to latitude 10° N., Sumatra, and the 

 Batu Islands. 



Surniculus lugubris lugubris (Horsfield) is confined to Java and Bali. 



» JourD. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 150, 1923. 



>o Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 102, 1916. 



•' Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 159, 1931; vol. 10, p. 88, 1936. 



» Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philalelphia, vol. 80, p. 573, 1928. 



•' Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 439, 1919. 



«« Ibis, 1918, p. 97. 



i» The fauna of British India, Birds, ed. 2, vol. 4, p. 165, 1927. 



"Ibis, 1911, p. 39. 



" Fasciculi Malayenses, pt. 3, p. 106, 1905. 



