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A series of five males and three females from Borneo are smaller 

 and paler on the throat, and the chestnut of the breast is more re- 

 stricted than in mainland specimens. Ten males from the Malay 

 Peninsula measure: Wing, 132.5-151 (144); tail, 209-230 (221.7); 

 culmen, 30-36.5 (33.5) mm. Five males from Borneo: Wing, 130- 

 145 (136.2); tail, 209-224 (214); culmen, 30-33.5 (31.7) mm. 



Robinson " records R. sumatranus from Lem Pia, Telibun Straits 

 and Krongmon, Trang; Robinson and Kloss ^* from Nong Kok, Ghirbi. 

 It does not seem to be a common bird in Peninsular Siam. 



The range is from Sumatra, Banka, and Billiton to the Malay- 

 States and north through Peninsular Siam to southern Tenasserim. 

 A slightly smaller race {Rhopodytes s. minor Riley) occurs in Borneo. 



UROCOCCYX EEYTHKOGNATHUS ERYTHROGNATHUS (Hartlaub) 



Phoenicophaes erythrognathus Hartlaub, Systematisches Verzeichniss der natural- 

 historischen Sammlung der Gesellschaft Museum [von Bremen], p. 95, 1844 

 (Sumatra). 



One male and three females, Bangnara, Patani, May 9 and June 2, 

 1924, July 15 and 18, 1926; one male, Yala, Patani, January 30, 1931; 

 two mules and one female, Kao Luang, Nakon Sritamarat, July 17 

 and 23, 1928; one male and one female, Huey Yang, Kao Luang, 

 October 9, 1930; one male, Sichol, Bandon, May 22, 1930; one male 

 and one female, Tha Lo, Bandon, May 22, 1930, September 15, 1931; 

 one male and one female, Waterfall, Trang, August 25, 1933; one male, 

 Kao Chong, Trang, September 3, 1933; one male, Kao Soi Dao, 

 Trang, January 12, 1934. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following specimens: Five males 

 and two females, Trang (Prahmon, March 14, 1896; Lay Song Hong, 

 September 9, 1896; Trang, January 31-February 4, 1897; Kao Nom 

 Plu, 1,000 feet, February 25, 1897 and Kao Nok Ram, 1,000 feet, 

 January 4, 1899); one female, Pulo Langkawi, December 4, 1899; two 

 males and two females, Trengganu (Tanjong Dungun, September 

 20 and 24, 1900; Packa River, September 24, 1900; Tanjong Laboha, 

 September 30, 1900); one male, Endau River, Pahang side, June 27, 

 1901; one male, Endau River, Johore, June 29, 1901; one male and 

 one female, Tenasserim (Victoria Point, December 17, 1900; Bok 

 Pyin, February 12, 1900). 



Dr. Abbott gives the following note on the soft parts: Bill green, 

 dull red at base; feet dark leaden; orbital space dark crimson; spot 

 on lower eyelid white; iris blue (male), yellow (female). 



Robinson and Kloss ^^ record it from Tasan, Chumporn, and this 

 seems to be about its northern limit on the Siamese side of the Isth- 

 mus. In Tenasserim it has been taken as far north as Yea. South- 



«> Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 158, 1917. 

 " Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 99, 1919. 

 "Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 158, 1923. 



