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CALYPTOMENA VIRIDIS CONTINENTIS Robinson and KIoss 



Calypiomena viridis coniinentis Robinson and Kloss, Journ. Federated Malay 

 States Mu8., vol. 11, p. 54, 1923 (Tasan, Chumporn, Peninsular Siam). 



Five males and three females, Bangnara, Patani, May 11, 1924, 

 July 4-14, 1926; four adult males, one immature male, and three 

 females, Sichol, Bandon, August 31-September 3, 1929, May 16 and 

 27, 1930; one female, Tha Lo, Bandon, September 20, 1931; two 

 females, Kao Soi Dao, Trang, January 1, 1934. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott secured three males and three females at Lay 

 Song Hong, Trang, September 2-December 24, 1896; three males and 

 two females from the eastern coast of Johore (Endau River, June 26- 

 27, 1901 ; Scmbrong River, July 6, 1901 ; and Jambu Luang, August 2, 

 1901); two females from the Rumpin River, Pahang, Juno 10-11, 

 1902. He gives the soft parts as: Iris blackish brown; upper 

 mandible dark horn brown, tip brownish yellow; lower mandible 

 greenish lead, tip yellow; feet green. 



There seems to be no difference in size or color between specimens 

 from the Malay States and those from Bandon, I have no birds from 

 Sumatra for comparison. The wings of 15 males from the Malay 

 Peninsula measure 98.5-107 (102.9 ) mm; of four females, 103.5-111.5 

 (105.8) mm. 



Four males and five females before me from Borneo are darker, 

 less yellowish, green than Malay Peninsula birds; they are also 

 smaller. The wings of four males from Borneo measure 94-97 (95.4) 

 mm; of five females, 99-105 (101.8) mm. Wliether Bornean birds 

 belong with those from Sumatra I cannot decide without material 

 from the latter island, but Robinson and Kloss seem to regard the 

 birds from these two islands as the same. 



The immature male taken by Dr. Smith at Sichol, Bandon, August 

 31, is similar to the adult female but is less yellowish green both above 

 and below. It is about adult in size. 



Gyldenstolpe ^' took a female at Hat Sanuk and observed a few more. 

 This is its most northern record in Siam. Robinson and Kloss ^" 

 record it from Koh Rah, Takuapah; Tapli, Pakchan Estuary, and 

 Tasan, Chumporn, and remark that it has been obtained as far north 

 in Tenasserim as Amherst. Robinson ^* reports finding a nest with two 

 hard-set eggs on Kao Nawng, Bandon, June 25, and gives a description 

 of the nest and eggs. 



The range of the form ts from Amherst, Tenasserim, and Hat Sanuk, 

 Peninsular Siam, southward through Peninsulnr Siam to the Malay 

 States, and it has been recorded from Cochinchina. 



«• Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 60, no. 2, p. 86, 1916. 



«• Journ. Nat. Hist. See. Slam, vol. 5, p. 202, 1923. 



»i Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 5, p. 96, 1916. 



