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from Java and the mainland have the breast without the huffy wash, 

 just a phiin bright green and the back the same. 



The form has a wide range, occurring from Ceylon and practically 

 all India to the foothills of the Himalayas, eastward to Burma, Siam, 

 Cambodia, Cochinchina, Annam, and Tonkin, and southward down 

 Peninsular Siam to the Malay States, Sumatra, Java, and Celebes. 



The form is both a resident and migrant virtually all over Siam and 

 extends down Peninsular Siam to Singapore. Robinson " in recording 

 it from Pulo Terutau says that it is a migrant only in the southern part 

 of the Peninsula; he has also recorded it from Koh Samui and Koh 

 Pennan.^^ Williamson ^^ states that it is both resident and migrant 

 at Bangkok. 



Merops philippinus philippinus Linnaeus inhabits the Philippine 

 Islands. 



MEROPS VIRIDIS SUMATRANUS Rafflea 



Merops sumatranus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, p. 294, 1822 

 (Sumatra) . 



One male and one immature unsexed, Bangnara, Patani, May 9, 

 1924, July 17, 1926; one male and one female, Singora, June 29, 1929; 

 two males, Koh Lak, June 5 and 11, 1933; one female, Nong Khor, 

 Sriracha, October 3, 1925. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected a male and a female in Trang (Pralmion^ 

 February 21, 1896; Tyching, July 8, 1896); two males and one female 

 at the Bindings, Straits of Malacca, April 15 and 16, 1900; one male, 

 one female, and one unsexed, Tanjong Kalong, Singapore, March 6 

 and April 20, 1900. He gives the soft parts as: Bill black; feet dull 

 black; iris carmine. 



This form has a wide range, occurring from Borneo, Sumatra, and 

 Nias through the Malay States and Peninsular Siam to southern and 

 southeastern Siam, Cochinchina, Annam, Tonkin, and southeastern 

 China. Robinson and Kloss ^* report it common over nearly all the 

 Peninsula and met with it on Langkawi. Robinson '^ records it 

 from Koh Samui and Koh Pennan, off Bandon; Kloss ^® lists it from 

 Lat Bua Kao, eastern Siam. 



Bangs and Penard *^ described the form Merops sumatranus coeli- 

 genus from Java. Two specimens in the United States National 

 Museum bear out their diagnosis of bluer underparts, etc., as com- 

 pared with specimens from the mainland. Unfortunately, however, 



" Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 152, 1917. 



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



13 Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 2. p. 328, 1917. 



lUbis. 1911, p. 37. 



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



" Ibis, 1918, p. 93. 



>' Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 8, p. 43, 1923. 



