BIRDS FROM vSIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 143 



The three males are pure white below, sparsely marked with 

 sagittate black spots; the female is light cimiamon-buff and more 

 heavily marked with black spots. A male from Depok, Java, in the 

 United States National Museum is darker above than the Siamese 

 specimens; below it is a slightly deeper bufl' than the female from 

 Siam. The Java male is also somewhat smaller; wing, 290 mm. 

 The three males from Siam measure: Wing, 308, 305, and 305 mm; the 

 female, 312 mm. 



The Siamese and Javan specimens are somewhat different and I 

 believe eventually will be recognized as belonging to different forms, 

 but for the present I place them here as other authors have done. If 

 anyone has compared mainland and Javan specimens in adequate 

 series, I have not noted it. 



Gyldenstolpe ®^ records it as very abundant at Bangkok; Gairdner "^ 

 from Petchaburi; Deignan ''^ reports it rather common at Cliiengmai; 

 Herbert ^^ gives it as very common at Bangkok and breeding in 

 January and February and laying five or six eggs to a set. 



The form ranges from Ceylon and India to Burma and south 

 through the Malay Peninsula to Java. 



PHODILUS BADIUS ABBOTTI Oberholaer 



Phodilus badius abbotti Oberholser, Joiirn. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 14, 

 p. 302, 1924 (Province of Wellesley, Federated Malay States). 



One male, Nong Khor, near Sriracha, southeastern Siam, September 

 23, 1925; one male, Lat Bua Kao, eastern Siam, August 14, 1929. 



Dr. Abbott purchased the type in Penang; it was said to have been 

 shot in the Province of Wellesley. 



Besides the above, the United States National Museum contains a 

 female from the Raheng District, Siam. This small series agrees 

 with the type of the form. A male from Buitenzorg, Java, while not 

 differing much in color, is considerably smaller. The wing measures 

 178 mm. The wings of two males from Siam measure 199 and 203 

 mm; of the female, 224 mm; the type of abbotti, 198 mm. 



Robinson " questions the distinctiveness of abbotti and unites it 

 with badius. The measurements he gives show the Malay Peninsula 

 specimens to be somewhat larger than those of Java and the sexes are 

 not segregated. If his views should prove correct, the name for the 

 Siamese birds would be Phodilus badius badius (Horsfield). 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ took a single specimen at Khun Tan. Chasen and 

 Kloss '* record a single female from Huey Yah Pla, Raheng District 



«' Ibis, 1920, p. 754. 



«» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 1, p. 150, 1915. 



'" Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl.. vol. 8, p. 16.S, 1931. 



" Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 6, p. 326, 1926. 



'2 Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 47, pp. 121-122, 1927. 



» Ibis, 1920, p. 754. 



'• Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 7, p. 1C3, 192S. 



