258 BULLETIN 17 2, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



PITTA MOLUCCENSI9 (MUller) 



Turdus moluccensis Muller, Natursystem, Supplements, p. 144, 1776 (Moluccas, 

 error; Tenasserim <'). 



Two males and one female, Lat Bua Kao, July 29-August 11, 1929; 

 one male and one female, Pak Chong, May 4, 1926, June 21, 1934, 

 one male, Lam lOong Lang, Pak Chong, June 9, 1925; one male, 

 Sakeo, near Krabin, May 6, 1926; one immature male, Nong Mong, 

 Krabin, August 20, 1925; one male, Lam ton Lang, May 30, 1934; 

 two females. Ban Sadet, Sriracha, May 31-Juno 2, 1925; two adult 

 males and two immature males, Huey Yang, Sriracha, August 1-7, 

 1932; one male, Muang Kanburi, April 16, 1928; one male, Pran, 

 May 26, 1928; one male, Koh Lak, June 6, 1933; one male, Kao Soi 

 Dao, Trang, January 6, 1934; one female, Yala, Patani, February 2, 

 1931. One set of four eggs, Pran, May 29, 1928. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected nine males and four females in Trang 

 (Tyching, April 24-July 2, 1896; Chong, January 21, 1897; near base 

 of Kao Nom Plu, March 10, 1897); one male, Pulo Langkawi, Decem- 

 ber 8, 1899; one female, Pulo Rupat, Straits of Malacca, March 15, 

 1906. He also took four sets of eggs in Trang as follows: Three of 

 four eggs each, May 29, June 19 and 21; one of five eggs, July 2; six 

 eggs from two nests, July 1 1 ; also a nest of five half-fledged young was 

 brought to him, June 22 ; these evidently were not saved, as they are 

 not among his specimens. All were taken in 1896. He gives the soft 

 parts as: Iris dark brown; bill black; feet purplish fleshy. 



This species occurs rather regularly all over Siam ; it is migratory in 

 the north and perhaps partially so farther south. Gyldenstolpe ** 

 records it from Ban Mehna and Pa Hing, northern Siam. Robinson " 

 records it from Pulo Dayang Bunting, Langkawi, and Terutau; pre- 

 viously he had recorded it from Koh Samui, ofi" Bandon,«° and there are 

 records from all sections of the country. Robinson took a set of five 

 hard-set eggs at Ban Kok Klap, Bandon; the date is not given, but 

 the party was at this locality between June 29 and July 6. He also 

 found nestling birds." Herbert " took a nest and four eggs at Chien- 

 grak Noi, central Siam, June 24. 



A male taken by Dr. Smith at Lat Bua Kao, August 11, has molted 

 all the feathers of the head and neck at one time and left it perfectly 

 bare. The pinfeathers are just coming in. If this is the usual style 

 of molt and not accidental, it is rather unusual. 



" Stuart Baker, The fauna of British India, Birds, ed. 2, vol. 3, p. 450, 1930. This seems a very unlikely 

 type locality for this early dale. 

 " Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2. p. 85, 1916. 

 " Journ. Federated Malay States Mus.. vol. 7. p. 167, 1917. 

 M Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 6, p. 147, 1915. 

 »i Ibid., p. 97. 

 " Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 297, 1924. 



