142 BULLETIN 17 2, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



CARPOCOCCYX RENAULDI Oustalet 



Carpococcyx renauldi Oustalet, Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, vol. 2, p. 314, 1896 

 (Kuangtri, Annam). 



One immature male, Lat Bua Kao, eastern Siam, August 11, 1929. 



Unfortunately no adult specimens are available for comparison. 

 Tliis genus consists of large, long-legged, ground cuckoos. It is very- 

 rare in collections. 



The forehead and throat in the above specimen are russet; the 

 crown, nape, and hindneck are black, with a purple sheen; a few 

 blacldsh violet feathers are appearing on the jugulum; back and 

 scapulars olive-gray; lower back dusky, with roods-brown tips and 

 mottlings to the feathers; rump mixed white and orange-cinnamon, 

 with narrow dusky crossbars; upper tail coverts dusky green; chest 

 white, with narrow dusky irregular crossbars; breast wliite; sides and 

 flanks like the chest, the flanks with some orange-cinnamon tips to 

 the feathers; thighs wliite vermiculated with dusky; under tail coverts 

 dusky with mikado-brown tips, the longer feathers dusky green wiith 

 cinnamon tips; bastard wing dusky violet tipped with cinnamon; 

 primary coverts dusky green with dusky violet along the outer margin 

 and tipped with cinnamon; primaries dusky violet, becoming dusky 

 greenish toward the base on the inner feathers and tipped with 

 cinnamon; secondaries dark olive-gray, with greenish and purpUsh 

 reflections; wing coverts like the back the greater darker and with 

 cinnamon tips; tail dusky \aolet. The specimen is in molt. Only 

 two old feathers of the tail remain, but two new ones are coming in 

 and are about 2 inches long; in color they are like the old ones. 



Stuart Baker ^^ records a pair in the Herbert collection from Pak 

 Chong; de Schauensee ^^ lists a female from Pak Djong, about 60 

 miles west of Korat, collected April 5. Gyldenstolpe ^^ says that it 

 had recently been obtained in Peninsular Siam, but this must be an 

 error, as Robinson and Kloss do not give it from there and I have 

 seen no records. 



The species ranges from Tonkin, Annam, Laos, and Cambodia to 

 eastern Siam and probably southeastern Siam. 



Family TYTONIDAE: Barn Owls 



TYTO ALBA JAVANICA (Gmelin) 



Strix javanica Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, pt. 1, p 295, 1788 (Java). 



Two males, Bangkok, October 17, 1923, and October 17, 1929; one 

 female. Lam Klong Lang, Pak Chong, June 13, 1925; one male, Tha 

 Luang, October 23, 1932. 



M Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 441, 1919. 



«• Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Pliiladelphia, vol. 80, p. 574, 1928. 



«' Ibis, 1920, p. 596. 



