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Dr. W. L. Abbott collected two males and two females in Trang 

 (Lay Song Hong, October 1, 1896; Trang, January 24, 1897; Kao 

 Soi Dao, 1,500 feet, February 15 and 25, 1899); and one male at the 

 Dindings, Straits of Malacca, April 15, 1900. He gives the color of 

 the soft parts as follows: Iris very dark red; bill red, black at base 

 of culmen; naked orbital skin blue; feet lead color. 



This form ranges from southern Tenasserim and southwestern 

 Siam south through Peninsular Siam to the Malay States. 



Ogilvie-Grant^' records it from Patani; Robinson and Kloss^^ 

 list it as common in Trang; Robinson ^^ records it from near Bankok 

 Klap, Bandon; Robinson and Kloss^* list it from Kao Ram, 1,000 

 feet, and Kao Luang, 2,000 feet, Nakon Sritamarat; de Schauensee^* 

 received seven specimens from Nakon Sritamarat; Robinson and 

 Kloss ^^ say this is a hill bird, fairly common in heavy jungle. 



A darker form, Zandostomus javanicus javanicus (Horsfield), is 

 confined to Java. 



RHOPODYTES TRISTIS LONGICAUDATUS (BIyth) 



Phoenicophaes longicaudatus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 10, p. 923, 

 1841 (Moulmein, Tenasserim). 



One male, Doi Nangka, November 18, 1930; one female, Aranya, 

 July 22, 1930; one female. Ban Nam Kien, Nan, April 22, 1930; one 

 male, Gengkoi, on the Pasak River, October 16, 1932; two males and 

 one female, Lat Bua Kao, July 31 and August 10, 1929; one female, 

 Hin Lap, December 12, 1931 ; two males, one female, and one unsexed, 

 Pak Chong, November 19-30, 1929, June 25, 1934; one female, Lam 

 Klong Lang, Pak Chong, June 7, 1925; two males. Ban Haad Hai, 

 March 2 and July 12, 1929; one male. Ban Hoa Kam, February 28, 

 1929; three males and one female, Huey Yang, Sriracha, August 2-6, 

 1932; one female, Klong Yai, Sriraclia, July 23. 1932; one male and 

 one female, Nong Yang, east of Sriracha, October 20 and November 7, 

 1931 ; one male and one female, Hupbon, October 27 and November 2, 

 1931; one male, Lem Sing, Chantabun, June 11, 1926; one male, Kao 

 Sabap, November 14, 1933; one male, and two females, Koh Chang, 

 January 7-13, 1926; one female, Koh Kut, May 25, 1929; one male, 

 Muang Kanburi, April 7, 1928; four males and two females, Pran, 

 April 2-3, 1931 ; one male, Koh Lak, June 23, 1933 ; one male, Tha Lo, 

 Bandon, September 27, 1931 ; one female, Nakon Sritamarat, Septem- 

 ber 27, 1926; one female. Ban Tha Yai, west of Nakon Sritamarat, 

 July 9, 1928; one female, Kao Chong, Trang, August 30, 1933; one 



•' Fasciculi Malayenses, pt. 3, p. 104, 1905. 



«Ihis, 1911, p. 42. 



" Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 5, p. 94, 191.^. 



** Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 11, p. 60, 1923. 



»» Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 258, 1934. 



"Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 156, 1923. 



