BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 239 



HEMICIRCUS CANENTE CANENTE (Lesson) 



Picus canente Lesson, Centurie zoologique . . ., p. 215, pi. 73, 1830 (Pegu). 



One male and two females, Koh Chang, April 5, 1924, March 10, 

 1930; one male and two females, Pak Chong, December 20, 1926, 

 November 24, 1929; one female, Aranya, July 16, 1930; one male and 

 one female, Kwe Noi, Kanburi, September 24, 1929; one female, 

 Pran, April 2, 1931. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected a female at Bok Pyin, Tenasserim, Feb- 

 ruary 13, 1900. 



The females as a rule are darker below than the males, and their 

 foreheads and crowns are buffy white. The immature is even darker 

 below than the female. 



This form ranges from Assam south of the Brahmaputra through 

 Burma to southern Tenasserim, northern Peninsular Siam, north to 

 northern Siam and eastward to Laos, Cochinchina, and Annam. 

 Gyldcnstolpe,^* records it from Ban Hue Hom and Pak Pan and 

 later " from Chum Poo and Pak Koh. De Schauensee secured speci- 

 mens from Nakon Nayok and Chieng Sen,^^ and later from Chantabun 

 and Ron Ken.^^ Robinson and Kloss ^° record it from Tapli, Pakchan 

 Estuary, which is about the limit of its range in this direction. Chasen 

 and Rloss ^' list a male from the Raheng district. Lowe ^^ met with 

 it 28 miles east of Umpang and 28 miles southwest of Kempempet 

 and says it is a scarce bird and generally seen in pairs on some dead 

 tree. 



H. c. cordatus Jerdon is confined to the Malabar coast and Travan- 

 core. 



MULLERIPICUS PULVERULENTUS PULVERULENTUS (Temininck) 



Picus pulverulentus Temminck, Nouveau recueil de planches coloriees d'oiseaux, 

 livr. G6, pi. 389, 1826 (Java and Sumatra; type locality fixed by Stresemann 

 as Java). 



One male, Kao Soi Dao, Trang, January 9, 1934; one male, Huey 

 Yang, Kao Luang, Nakon Sritamarat, October 10, 1930; one male, 

 Bandon, January 8, 1927; two males, Tha Lo, Bandon, September 14, 

 23, 1931. 



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

 (Prahmon, March 3 and April 14, 1896, and Lay Song Hong, August 

 25 and October 2, 1896); one immature male, Singapore Island, May 

 31, 1899; one female, Endau River, east coast of Johore, June 28, 1901 ; 

 two males and one female, in Tenasserim (Sungei Balik, December 



'« Kungl. Svenska Vet-Akad. Handl., vol. 50, no. 8, p. 50, 1913. 

 " Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Ilandl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 96, 1916. 

 " Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 81, p. 567, 1930. 

 " Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 252, 1934. 

 «» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soe. Siam, vol. 5, p. 198, 1923. 

 " Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 7, p. 171, 1928. 

 " Ibis. 1933, p. 475. 



