BIRDS FROM vSIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 133 



CLAMATOR COROMANDUS (Linnaeus) 



Cuculus coromandus Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 12, p. 171, 1766 (Coro- 

 mandel Coast). 



One male, Ban Nam Kien, near Nan, April 19, 1930; one male and 

 one female, Bangkok, January 26 and September 14, 1925; one male, 

 Pran, southwestern S am, June 1, 1928. 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ records it from Klmn Tan; Deignan" says that it is 

 apparently migratory at Chicngmai, where he noted it in February, 

 March, July, September, and November; Barton ^° lists it from the 

 Raheng District; de Schauensee -^ from Bangkok, March 3, and Pak 

 Djong, April 5; Robinson ^^ from Langkawi, Terutau, and Pulo 

 Telibun, Trang; Robinson and Kloss^^ from Kao Keo, Nakon Srita- 

 marat. The latter authors say it is not uncommon in the winter 

 months over the whole of the Malay Peninsula.^^ De Schauensee ^^ 

 on his third journey to Siam took a male at Petrieu, October 16. 



The range of the species is the Indian Peninsula and Ceylon 

 east to Assem, Burma, Siam, Laos, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Annam, and 

 soi'thern China and south through Peninsular Siam to the Malay 

 States, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, and Celebes. 



This cuckoo is only a sum.mer resident in the northern part of its 

 range, moving south in winter; in the Malay Peninsula and south it 

 is supposed to be only a winter visitor. 



EUDYNAMYS SCOLOPACEA MALAYANA Cabanis and Heine 



Eudynamis malayana Cabanis and Heine, Museum Heineanum, pt. 4, p. 52, 

 1863 (Sumatra). 



Four males and one female, Bangkok, September 19-October 5, 

 1924, November 9, 1925, April 1, 1926; one male. Pang Sok, August 

 19, 1926; one female, Vichienburi, February 26, 1934; one immature 

 male, Muang Kanburi, April 14, 1928; one female, Bandon, January 

 5, 1927; one male, Koh Tao, off Bandon, September 22, 1928; one 

 male, Koh Pangan, off Bandon, July 31, 1931. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected five males in Trang (Prahmon, April 5, 

 1896; Kantany, January 16-17, 1897; Trang, February 10, 1897); 

 two males, Pulo Berhala, Straits of Malacca, November 11, 1905; 

 and two males and one female, Mergui Archipelago (Domel Island, 

 January 23, 1904 ; South Twin Island, January 27, 1900). He describes 

 the soft parts as: Iris vermihon; bill duU homy green; feet leaden. 



I have grave doubts whether specimens from Siam and Peninsular 



18 Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. HandL, vol. 5fi, no. 2, p. 101, 1916. 



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



»« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 1, p. 107, 1914. 



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



« Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. l.'iS, 1917. 



« Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 11, p. 59, 1923. 



'< Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 150, 1923. 



'S Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 257, 1934. 



