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I doubt whether the above series really belongs to lettia. They do 

 not seem to fit Stuart Baker's '^^ diagnosis of the form, but I have no 

 topotypical specimens for comparison and so assign them here. 



The form ranges from Nepal to eastern Assam, eastern Bengal, 

 Burma, Siam proper, and southeast to Cambodia and central and 

 southern Annam. 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ records it from Den Chai and later ^^ from Pak Koh, 

 Chum Poo, and Khun Tan ; Robinson ^^ from Pulo Dayang Bunting, 

 Langkawi Group, December; Chasen and Kloss ^'^ from the Raheng 

 District; Lowe ^^ from the Meping; de Schauensee ^^ from Chiengmai, 

 Cliantabun, Tap Chang, Petrieu, and Bangkok; a female taken by him 

 at Chiengmai, February 2, had eggs in the oviduct ready to be laid. 

 Herbert ^^ found it a common breeder in the Bangkok District but 

 more so in the Samlcok District, the nesting season extending from late 

 in January to early in March and the set usually consisting of tliree 

 eggs, sometimes four. 



It is probably onl}^ a winter visitor in Peninsular Siam. 



OTUS BAKKAMOENA LEMPIJI (Horsfield) 



Scops lempiji Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, p. 140, 1821 (Java). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected a male and two females at the Rumpin 

 River, Pahang, July 15-22, 1902, and there is a male collected by C. 

 B. Kloss at Tanjong Kalong, Singapore, April 3, 1900, in the United 

 States National Museum. Two of the Rumpin River specimens are 

 immature. One of the females is apparently adult. The male from 

 Singapore is adult and has a cinnamon-buff suffusion both above and 

 below that cannot be matched by any specimen in a series from Java; 

 the adult female from Pahang is even a deeper cinnamon-buff than the 

 male and the black spotting is much reduced below. The wing in the 

 male measures 143 mm; in the adult female, 145 mm. These four 

 specimens doubtfully belong to this form, but I do not know where else 

 to place them. 



This is a small dark forjn found in southern Peninsular Siam. It 

 has been recorded from the Langkawi Islands and Bandon, but the 

 records from Bangkok and Koh Mesan prove to belong to two other 

 forms. 



Robinson ^ gives the range as southern Tenasserim south to the 

 Malay States, Sumatra, and Java. 



"The fauna of British India, Birds, ed. 2, vol. 4, p. 427, 1927. 

 »» Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. ITandl., vol. 50, no. 8, p. 61, 1913. 

 »< Ktinpl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Uandl., vol. n6, no. 2, p. 120. 1916. 

 « Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 145, 1917. 

 •« Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Uist. Suppl., vol. 7, p. 164, 1928. 

 "Ibis, 1933, p. 483. 



«s Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 263, 1934. 

 »» Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 6, p. 327, 1926. 

 ' The birds of the Malay Peninsula, vol. 1, p. 79, 1927. 



