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73-84 (77) mm. Eight females: Wing, 145-158 (151.5); tail, 91-99.5 

 (95.2); culmen, 75.5-83 (78) mm. 



The range of the form extends from Bandon in Peninsular Siam, or 

 possibly slightly farther north, south through the Malay States to 

 Singapore. Robinson ^' reports it from Koh Pennan, off Bandon. 



This form has a darker pilcum and back than R. c. burmanica. 



HALCYON SMYRNENSIS FUSCA (Boddaert) 



Alcedo fusca Boddaeut, Table des planches en!umin(5ez d'histoire naturelle, 

 p. 54, 1783 (Malacca). 



One female, Mesuya Valley, January 2, 1933; one female. Bung 

 Borapet, Jime 21, 1932; one male, Potaram, February 6, 1926; two 

 males and five females, Bangkok, October 2 and 25, 1924, October 10, 

 26, and December 18-30, 1925; one unsexed, Hupbon, October 31, 

 1931; one female, Nong Khor, February 5, 1927; one male, Kao 

 Sabap, November 4, 1933; two males and one female, Muang Kan- 

 buri, April 7 and 9, 1928; one male and one female, Pran, April 1 and 

 4, 1931; one female, Bandon, January 6, 1927; one unsexed, Bangnara, 

 Patani, July 11, 1926; one female, Bukit, Patani, Januarj^ 24, 1931. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected tlic following: Three males, two females, 

 and one unsexed in Trang (Prahmon, April 4, 1896; Tyching, July 8, 

 1896; Lay Song Hong, August 16, and September 20, 1896; Trang, 

 February 15, 1897, March 4, 1899). There is a female from Tanjong 

 Kalong, Singapore, October 15, 1899, collected by C. Boden Kloss. 

 Dr. Abbott also collected a set of two eggs in Trang, February 

 15, 1897. 



Dr. Abbott gives the soft parts as: Iris dark brown; bill red, dark 

 at base; feet red, claws dark hom brown. 



There seem to be no constant differences in color between Peninsular 

 Siam specimens and those from Siam proper; the males from the north 

 on the average seem to have somewhat larger bills, but it is not 

 constant. 



The form ranges all over India and Burma east to Siam, southwest 

 China, Indo-China, and Peninsular Siam to the Malay States as far as 

 Singapore. Apparently it is a common resident form all over Siam and 

 in the Malay Penin.5ula. 



The species has been divided into a niunber of forms. That from 

 Fokien, China, has been separated as Halcyon smyrnensis Jokiensls 

 Laubmann and Gotz.^^ 



»' Journ. Fed. Malay States Miis., vol. 5, p. 145, 1915. 

 •> Verh. Orn. Ges. Bayern, vol. 17, p. 42, 1926. 



