BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 153 



Boden Kloss from Koh Kram, Inner Gulf of Siam. The wings of the 

 males measure 210, 215, 215, 216, and 217 mm; the females, 205, 210, 

 212, and 216 mm. 



The range of the form is Assam soutli of the Bramaputra, Burma, 

 the Shan States, Siam, and all Indo-Cliina. 



This is tl e resident form of Siam proper. It is not known where it 

 meets the next form in southwestern Siam or how far it extends to the 

 northeast. All records are too uncertain to give. 



Family PODARGIDAE: Frogmouths 



BATRACHOSTOMUS STELLATUS (Gould) 



Podargus stcllatus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1837, p. 43 (Java, error; 

 Hartert '^ substitutes Malacca). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took a male on the Endau River, Pahang side, 

 June 27, 1901; wing, 124 mm. He gives the soft part as: Iris straw 

 yellow; eyelid-brownish yellow; feet pale brownish fleshy; inside of 

 mouth pale bluish fleshy; upper mandible horny brown, lower 

 mandible pale brownish fleshy. 



This specimen is hazel above; the nuchal band posteriorly is 

 bordered by black; the white markings on the scapulars and wing 

 coverts are bordered by black, both posteriorlj'^ or anteriorly; the 

 thi'oat is ocliraceous-tawny, with faint irregular dusky bars, the lower 

 throat with a few bufTy subterminal spots; the chest is orange-cin- 

 namon, with concealed buft'y subterminal centers to the feathers; the 

 breast and belly are cartridge buff, the feathers with narrow borders 

 of orange-cinnamon, giving an occelated appearance; tail roods brown, 

 barred with a much lighter brown, each bar bordered with a narrow 

 dusky line above and below. Wing, 124 mm. This is not a complete 

 description but is sufficient for present purposes. It does not agree 

 with Hartert 's description.^^ 



Three Malacca trade skins in the United States National Museum 

 are darker, and in two of them the white nuchal collar is almost 

 lacking. 



The species is found in the Malay States, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



I know of no Siamese record, but it probably occurs along the 

 southern border of Peninsular Siam. 



BATRACHOSTOMUS AFFINIS Blyth 



Batrachostomus affinis Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 16, p. 1180, 1847 

 (Malacca). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected a male on the Rumpin River, Pahang, 

 eastern Malay Peninsula, June 5, 1902; wing, 111 mm. He describes 

 the soft parts as: Iris pale yellow ; feet brownish fleshy ; upper mandible 



'e Nov. Zool., vol. 9, p. 542, 1902. 



*" Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 16, p. 639, 1892. 



