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female, Kao Soi Dao, Trang, January 8, 1934; one female, Yala, 

 Patani, February 2, 1931 ; two males, Bangnara, Patani, May 13, 1924, 

 July 3, 1926. 



Dr. Smith gives the colors of the soft parts as follows: Iris dark 

 brown; bill light green; feet dusky green or (in a specimen from 

 Patani) blue. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected one male and four females, Trang 

 (Prahmon, February 20-April 3, 1896; Tyching, July 4, 1896; 

 Kantany, January 15, 1897); and two males, Mergui Archipelago 

 (Domel Island, February 27; Heifer Island, March 6, 1900). He 

 gives the following notes on the soft parts: Iris dark red; bill light 

 green, space about nostril dark red; tarsi dull olive or leaden; naked 

 orbital space dull red. 



Tliis form ranges nearly all over Siam and down Peninsular Siam 

 to the Malay States; it extends to Tenasserim and southern Burma, 

 Laos, Tonldn, Annam, Cochinchina, and southern China. It seems 

 to be common in Siam proper, but in the Malay States it is less so and 

 confined almost exclusively to the liilis.^^ It also has been recorded 

 from Koh Samui"* and Kao Nawng, 3,000 feet, Bandon,^^ by Robinson. 

 Herbert *° says that the breeding season in central Siam extends from 

 April 3 to August 13. The clutch consists of two or three eggs. 

 Herbert gives a description of the nest and eggs. De Schauensee** 

 states that it appears to ascend the hills higher in summer than it 

 does in winter. Aagaard took it at 4,600 feet on Doi Sutep.*^ 



There is some uncertainty about the application of Lesson's Melias 

 tristis. He gave no locality. Hartert ^^ states that he accepts Pegu. 

 If he is upheld, it seems to me that the Siamese race will become R. t. 

 tristis and the form from northern India ^nll become R. t. monticolus 

 (Blyth).''* 



RHOPODYTES DIARDI DIARDI (Lesson) 



Melias diardi Lesson, Traits d'ornithologie, p. 132, 1831 (Java, error; Ilartert " 

 substitutes Sumatra). 



One male, Bukit, Patani, January 27, 1931. 



Dr. W, L. iVbbott collected a female near Kao Nok Ram, Trang, 

 January 5, 1899, and gives the following note on the soft parts: 

 Feet dull leaden; bill green, a pale blue spot over the nostril. 



Bonhote*^ and Ogilvie-Grant *^ record this form from Patani; 



" Robinson, The birds of tlie Malay Peninsula, vol. 2, p. 79, 1928. 



" Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 5, p. 146, 1915. 



«■ Ibid., p. 94. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 304, 1924. 



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



« Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 235, 1932. 



« Nov. Zool., vol. 9, p. 545, 1902. 



« Journ. Asiat. Soc. Dcngal, vol. 11, p. 1095, 1842. 



" Nov. Zool., vol. 9, p. 545, 1902. 



" Proc. Zool. Soc. London, vol. 1, p. 75, 1901. 



*■ Fasciculi Malayenses, pt. 3, p. 103, 1905. 



