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A male and two females from West Java in the United States 

 National Museum are paler above than the Siamese series. No speci- 

 mens from Borneo have been available for comparison. 



The form ranges from Assam to Burma, Yunnan, Siam, the Malay 

 Peninsula, Sumatra, Indo-China, Hainan, Java, and Borneo. In the 

 Philippines a related form, C. b. jyallidior (McGregor), occurs. 



Robinson and Kloss,^^ writing of Peninsular and southwestern Siam, 

 state that this swift is common among the Lontar palms wherever 

 they occur; Deignan^^ reports it common at Chiengmai; Robinson*^ 

 records it from Koh Samui and Koh Pennan ; Herbert ^^ collected a 

 nest and two eggs at Ban Khang, February 15. 



It seems to be comm-on all over Siam in suitable localities from the 

 northern boundary to and including the Malay States. 



HIRUNDAPUS GIGANTEUS GIGANTEUS (Temminck) 



Cypselus giganteus Temminck, Nouveau recueil de planches colorizes d'oiseaux, 

 livr. 61, pi. 364, 1825 (Java). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took a fine male at Lay Song Hong, Trang, 

 August 30, 1896. He gives the soft parts as: Iris blacldsh brown; 

 bill black; feet leaden blue, claws horny brown, tips black. 



This is apparently the first record of this bird for Siam. 



The form ranges from Trang and possibly farther north in Penin- 

 sular Siam southward to Sumatra, Java, Borneo, the Natunas, and 

 some of the Pliilippines (Palawan, CuUon, Calamianes). 



It can be distinguished from H. g. indicus by the absence of the 

 white spot on the lores and by the darker throat. 



HIRUNDAPUS GIGANTEUS INDICUS (Hume) 



Chaetura indica Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. 1, p. 471, 1873 (Andamans and 

 southern India). 



One male, Tha Chang, March 16, 1927; one male, Khun Tan 

 Mountains, 4,000 feet, November 21, 1928; four males, Chantabun, 

 January 11, 1930. 



There is a specimen of this form in the British Museum from 

 Salanga, or Junkseylon, recorded by Hartert."*^ Robinson and Kloss ^° 

 say that it occasionally straggles as far south as Selangor in the 

 Peninsula; it is evidently rare or only a straggler. Dr. Smith notes 

 that it is common on the highest ridges of the Khun Tan Mountains. 

 Gyldcnstolpe ^' took a female on the Mehlem, March 10; Deignan ®* 



« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 145, 1923. 



« Journ. Siam Sec. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 163, 1931. 



" Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 5, p. 146, 1915. 



"Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 6, p. 325, 1926. 



*• Catalogue of the birds in the British Museum, vol. 16, p. 476, 1892. 



w Journ. N:U. iJist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 144, 1923. 



«i Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 50, no. 8, p. 56, 1913. 



" Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 163, 1931. 



