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Count Gyldenstolpe ^ has recorded it from Khun Tan and Pa Hing 

 in the north; Lowe ^ Hsts it from Mewong River, 40 miles west of Um 

 Pang, western Siam; Robinson and Kloss® from Kao Luang, 2,000 

 feet, Nakon Sritamarat. 



All Dr. Smith's specimens recorded above, except the one from 

 Trang, come from eastern and southeastern Siam. It is apparently 

 rare in the northern part of its range. 



The range of the form is from east, central, and south Burma to 

 the whole of Siam, Laos, Cochinchina, southern Annam, and south 

 through Peninsular Siam to the Malay States. 



E. j. javanicus Horsfield, of which no specimens have been available 

 for examination, is confined to western and middle Java ; E. j. harterti 

 Van Oort to Sumatra and the Rhio Archipelago; E.j. brookei Robinson 

 and Kloss to Borneo; and E. j. billitonis Kloss to Billiton Island. 



EURYLAIMUS OCHROMALUS OCHROMALUS Raffles 



Eurylaimus ochromalus Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, p. 295, 1822 

 (forests of Singapore and interior of Sumatra). 



One male and one female, Sichol, Bandon, August 30 and September 

 1, 1929; two males and two females, Kao Soi Dao, Trang, January 16, 

 1934. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected two males and two females. Lay Song 

 Hong, Trang, September 3 and 21, 1896; one male and one female, 

 Victoria Point, Tenasserim, March 29, 1904. He describes the soft 

 parts as: Bill blue at base and middle of lower mandible; sides of the 

 lower and distal two-thirds of the upper pale green; tip and a line 

 along the commissure black; feet pinkish fleshy; iris bright yellow. 



Robinson and Kloss '" report it from Tapli, Pakchan Estuary, and 

 Tasan, Chumporn, Peninsular Siam, and say these are the most 

 northerly recorded for Siam, but in Tenasserim the form reaches its 

 northern limits at Yea, in about latitude 15° N. 



The form ranges from southern Tenasserim south through Penin- 

 sular Siam to the Malay States, Sumatra, Banka, and the Natuna 

 Islands. 



E. 0. mecistus Oberholser, a somewhat larger form, occurs on Pulo 

 Tuanku, Banjak Islands, off the western coast of Sumatra; E. o. 

 kalamantan Robinson and Kloss in Borneo. 



CORYDON SUMATRANUS LAOENSIS de Schauensee 



Corydon sumatranus laoensis de Schauensee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 80, p. 555, 1929 (Chiengmai, northern Siam). 



One male, Doi Angka, 2,000 feet, December 8, 1928; one male, 

 Khun Tan, October 24, 1929; one female, Huey Salob, January 2, 



' Ibis, 1920, p. 581. 



' Ibis, 1933. p. 282. 



• Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 11, p. 60, 1923. 



» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 203, 1923. 



