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(this is the female mentioned above). Apparently it is not recorded 

 from Peninsular Siam, but it must occur there. Robinson and Kloss '* 

 say it is a bird of extreme rarity in the southern parts of the Peninsula. 

 The range of the form is the Malay Peninsula, north to Siam and 

 Burma and east probably to Cocliinchina. 



Family STRIGIDAE: Typical Owls 



STRIX INDRANEE MAINGAYI (Hume) 



Syrnium maingayi Hcme, Stray Feathers, vol. 6, p. 27, 1878 (Malacca). 

 SLrix indranee riieyi Estelle Kelso, Auk, vol. 54, p. 305, 1937 (Kao Nok Ram, 

 Trang). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected a female at Lay Song Hong, Trang, 

 September 28, 1896, and a female at Kao Nok Ram, 2,000 feet, Trang, 

 in 1899 (exact date not given). 



He states that the colors of the soft parts are: Iris dark brown; bill 

 pale horny greenish; claws homy white at base, darkening to dark 

 brown at tips. 



These two specimens are much darker than laotiana, the bars below 

 broader and the breast crossed by a rather broad band of dark brown. 

 The dark bieast band is broad in one, the cross rays showing only 

 faintly in the center; in the other it is more or less interrupted with 

 cross-rayed feathers, but the dark cross rays are broader than on the 

 breast. The wings measure 362 and 369 mm. 



Robinson and Kloss ^^ record a specimen from Chong, Trang; 

 Baker " lists it from Tung Song; Robinson and Kloss "^ state that 

 they have six specimens from Trang southward to Selangor, the 

 majority from the Malay States of which Kloss ^^ had previously 

 given a Ust. 



The form ranges from southern Tenasserim southward through 

 Peninsular Siam to the Malay States. Strix indranee bartelsi (Finsch) 

 is peculiar to Java. 



A specimen of this owl in the United States National ^Museum is 

 darker above than maingayi, and the lowerparts are strongly washed 

 wdth rufous; the line above the disk also h strongly rufous. It is a 

 very distinct race. 



Some recent authors have made this and related races forms of 

 Strix leptogrammica, the nominate form of which is confmed to Boinco, 

 but the latter is a much smaller species, with the upperparts barred 

 rufous and blackish, the chest and throat uniform, rufous, the toes 

 more extensively bare. The Indian and Siamase races have nothing 

 to do specifically with this small species. 



" Joiirn. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 108, 1923. 



"Ibis, 1911, p. 31. 



" Joiirn. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam., vol. 4, p. 2fi, 1920. 



» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. ."i, p. 1C«, 1923. 



'» Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 4, p. 230, 1911. 



