BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 145 



Strix leptogrammica has been divided into four nominal races as 

 follows: 



Strix le/ptogramviica leptogrammica Temiiiiiick (Borneo). 

 Strix leptogrammica myrtha Bonaparte (Sumatra). 

 Strix leptogravimica ninsensis Salvadori (ISiias). 



Str2X leptograminica nyctiphasma Oberholser (Banjak Islands, western 

 Sumatra) . 



STRIX INDRANEE LAOTIANA Delacour 



Strix newarensis laotianus Dklacour, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 47, p. 11, 1926 

 (Xieng-Khouang, Laos). 



T\vo females, Pak Chong, eastern Siam, Novem.ber 15 and 18, 1925. 



This owl is new to the Siamese bird list. The form is much paler 

 than maingayi of Peninsular Siam, and the neck collar above is wider 

 and more extensively barred with a paler buff; the scapulars and 

 secondaries are more pronouncedly barred, and the latter are more 

 broadljT^ tipped with white; below it is paler and the dark bai-s narrower, 

 breast band absent; the facial disk is lighter. 



The two specimens are not exactly alilce. One is a lighter brown 

 above, the cross rays more fulvous, the light bars on the scapulars 

 darker and more fulvous; below' the differences are not so great. The 

 wings measure 378 and 375 mm. 



The United States National Museum possesses an immature speci- 

 men from Haut Donai, Annam, taken May 26. It is nearly fully 

 grown but still retains some of the nesting do\m on the pileum, mantle, 

 throat, and rump. The new postjuvenal plumage that has ah'eady 

 appeared is similar to that of the Pak Chong specimens. 



So far this form is known only from a few specimens taken in south 

 and central Annam, Laos, and eastern Siam. 



STRIX ORIENT ALIS ORIENTALIS Shaw 



Slrix orientalis Shaw, General zoology, vol. 7, pt. 1, p. 257, 1809 (China). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took a female (?) at Lay Song Hong, Trang, 

 September 1, 1896. The wing measures 355 mm. He describes the 

 soft parts as: Iris blackish brown; bill and cere dull black; toes black, 

 claws horny black. 



A single female from Java has more buff to the bases of the feathers 

 above and the white spotting is more pronounced; the wing measures 

 325 mm. It represents Strix orientalis seloputo Horsfield. 



S. 0. orientalis ranges from southern Burma south through the 

 Malay Peninsula to vSumatra and east through central Siam to 

 Cochinchina. The type locality "China" is probably an error, as it is 

 not knowTi from there. 



