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Mr. Aagaard ^^ secured one from the summit, 5,600 feet. Gairdner ^* 

 took one in the Kaheng District, western Siam. Lowe ^^ reports it 

 from 28 miles east of Um Pang. 



Two other forms of this species have been described: 



Megalaima virens marshallorum Swinhoe (northwestern Himalayas east- 

 ward to Sikkini). 



Megalaima virens magnijica Stuart Baker (Assam to Manipur, Looshai 

 and Chin Hills, hill tracts of Tippera and Chittagong). Of this race I 

 have seen no specimens. 



THEREICERYX UNEATUS INTERMEDIUS Stuart Baker 



Thereiceryx lineains intermedius Stuart Baker, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, vol. 39, 

 p. 19, 1918 (Pahpoon, Burma). 



One male, Doi Angka, December 2, 1928; one immature male, Doi 

 Phra Chao, August 2, 1934; one male. Nan, April 16, 1930; two males 

 and one female, Ban Nam Kien, Nan, April 21-22, 1930; one female, 

 Rumpawapi, March 20, 1929; one female, Mae Hong Sorn, January 

 8, 1933; one female, Melang Valley, January 1, 1933; one female, 

 Mesuya Valley, January 2, 1933; one female, Ta Fang, January 17, 

 1933; one female, Lampang, November 15, 1928; two males, Knong 

 Phra, February 25, 1924, April 13, 1929; two males and one female, 

 Sakeo, near Krabin, May 7-9, 1928; two males. Pang Sok, August 

 15-18, 1926; three males and one female, Pak Chong, February 19, 

 1924, May 8, 1925, May 10, 1926, December 22, 1926; one male, 

 Chantuk, June 17, 1934; five males, one female, and one unsexed, 

 Nong Klior, near Sriracha, September 22-October 1, 1925, March 

 19-20, 1926, November 8-10, 1926; one female, Nong Yang, October 

 20, 1931; one male, Muang Kanburi, April 12, 1928; one male, Sai 

 Yok, Kanburi, September 23, 1929; one male and one female, Bo 

 Ploi, Kanburi, September 7-8, 1928; one male, Nongkai, February 18, 

 1929; four males and one female, Pran, May 27, June 3, 1928, and 

 April 2, 1931. 



Dr. Smith gives the colors of the soft parts as follows: Bare skin 

 around the eye bright yellow; bill reddish horn; legs deep yellow; 

 iris brown. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected three males and two females in Trang 

 (Prahmon, March 22 and April 6, 1896; Tyching, May 29, 1896); 

 two fem.ales, at Tanjong Dungun, Trengganu, September 20, 1900. 

 He describes the soft parts as: Male — iris brown; orbital skin yellow; 

 bill pale fleshj^ brownish; feet dull horn yellow, claws brownish black. 

 One female has the iris in two circles, inner brownish red, outer pale 

 brown. 



•' Chasen and Kloss, Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 235, 1932. 

 «8 Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 7, p. 109, 1928. 

 e» Ibis, 1933, p. 476. 



