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Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following: one male, Lay Song Hong, 

 Trang, September 20, 1896; one male and one female, Tanjong 

 Dungun, Trengganii, September 20,1900; one female, Endau River, 

 east coast of Johore, June 25, 1901 ; one male, Telok Besar, Tenasserim, 

 March 1, 1904, He gives the colors of the soft parts as follows: 

 Male (Trang) — iris dark brown ; feet dull green ; upper mandible black, 

 lower leaden. A female from Johore — iris dark red; feet dirty leaden; 

 a male from Tenasserim: iris deep red; feet brownish olive. 



These differences are probably individual or age variations, not 

 sexual. 



Meiglyptes tukki tukki (Lesson), of Sumatra, Banka, Billiton, and 

 possibly some other islands near the southeastern tip of Sumatra, 

 seems to average darker and more heavily barred, both above and 

 below, than the mainland form; it also averages slightly smaller. 



SLx males from the Malay Peninsula measure: Wing, 97-104 

 (100.8); tail, 58.5-65 (61.7); culmen, 22-25 (23.5) mm. Six males 

 from Sumatra (3), Banka (1), and BilHton (2): Wing, 92.5-100 

 (97.3); tail, 57-64 (60.3); culmen, 21-24 (22.4) mm. 



M. tukki hrunneus ranges from the Malay States northward through 

 Peninsular Siam to Southern Tenasserim. 



Robinson and Kloss *^ report it from Tasan, Chumporn, and say that 

 this is the most northerly record. De Schauensee ^° records it from 

 Nakon Sritamarat. 



MEIGLYPTES JUGULARIS Blyth 



Meiglyptes jugularis Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 14, p. 195, 1845 



(Arracan). 



One male, Doi Phra Chao, August 6, 1934; one female, Wangkien, 

 Kanburi, March 13, 1934; one male and one female, Nakon Nayok, 

 June 9 and 16, 1929; one male, Kao Pae Pan Nam, February 18, 1934; 

 one female, Nong Mong, Muang Krabin, August 27, 1925; one female, 

 Lamton Lang, June 2, 1934; one male and two females, near Krabin, 

 May 3, 9, 1928; one male, Pak Chong, November 24, 1929; four males 

 and one female, Hupbon, October 27-November 5, 1931; two males, 

 Nong Khor, near Sriracha, November 13, 1924, September 26, 1925; 

 one male, Klong Yai, Sriracha, July 25, 1932; two males, Ban Tarn 

 Dam, March 5, 6, 1930; two males, Kao Sabap, October 24 and 

 November 16, 1933. Dr. Smith also took a female at Ban Keng Sedok, 

 French Laos, March 1, 1929, and a male at Doi Kao Lip, Salwin Dis- 

 trict, Burma, January 29, 1933. He gives the color of the soft parts 

 as: Iris dark brown; bill black; legs dusky blue or dirty gray. 



Tills species ranges from Arracan, Burma, eastward to Tenasserim, 

 Siam, Cambodia, Laos, Cochincliina, and southern Annam. 



«• Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 180, 1923. 



•0 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 251, 1934. 



