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Siam to Malacca. Gyldenstolpe ^ lias recorded it from Khun Tan; 

 Robinson ^ from Pulo Langkawi and Pulo Terutau ; Robinson and 

 Kloss " state that it is widely, though sparingly, distributed along both 

 coasts of Peninsular Siam and is very numerous both in Singora 

 and at Tanjong Patani. 



ENTOMOTHERA COROMANDA MINOR (Teinitiinck and Schlegel) 



Alcedo {Halcyon) coromanda minor Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 

 Aves, p. 76 1842 (Borneo and Sumatra; type locality restricted by Ober- 

 holser, Pontianak, Borneo). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took an adult male on Singapore Island, May 18, 

 1899. He describes the soft parts as: Iris dark brown; eyelids red; 

 bill and feet red, claws horny red. 



This is a smaller and considerably darker bird than the preceding 

 race. It ranges from Borneo and Java to Singapore and Johore; 

 possibly farther north. 



There are apparently no records of this form from Peninsular 

 Siam, though it may reach Patani. 



SAUROPATIS CHLORIS ARMSTRONGI (Sharpe) 



Halcyon chloris subsp. a. armslrongi Sharpe, Catalogue of birds in the British 

 Museum, vol. 17, p. 277, pi. 7, fig. 1, 1892 (Sunderbunds to Burmah, Tenas- 

 serim, and Siam, south to the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra, and northern 

 Borneo; type locality as fixed by Oberholser, Siam). 



Two males, Bangkok, February 14 and April 13, 1924; one male 

 and two females, Nakon Sritamarat, September 16-30, 1926; one male, 

 Patalung, July 10, 1929; one female, Koh Pangan (Pennan), July 22, 

 1931. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following: Two males and two 

 females, Trang (Telibon Island, February 25 and March 1, 1896; 

 Prahmon, March 22 and 26, 1896); one male and one female, Pulo 

 Langkawi, December 2, 1899; one female, Tanjong Laboha, Treng- 

 ganu, September 30, 1900; two males, Mergui Arcliipelago (Lough- 

 borough Island, January 24, 1900; Bentinck Island, March 9, 1900); 

 one male, Victoria Point, Tenasserim, March 30, 1900. He gives the 

 soft parts as: Iris dark brown; bill black, white at base of lower 

 mandible; feet fleshy brown. 



The two males from. Bangkok have the ear coverts blue like the 

 croM'n. An unsexed specimen from Klong Yai has the ear coverts 

 more of a greenish blue; the latter can be matched by specimens from 

 Peninsular Siam. Only two specimens, one from Pulo Langkawi and 

 one from Trengganu, have the ear coverts blackish, and they show 

 signs of being slightly inmiature, though in other immature speci- 



1 Kungl. SveDska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 118, 1916. 

 » Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 147, 1917. 

 » Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 128. 1923. 



