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Stresemann ^ has given a history of the species as far as loiown, with 

 a colored plate of the adult male and a female. The latter does not 

 agree with any of the females described above, not even with the one I 

 have supposed was somewhat immature. None of the three females 

 has the pileum and wings brown as depicted. They are cither slate 

 gray or dull black. I surmise that the female depicted must be a still 

 younger bird than any I have examined. 



The species evidently breeds in the mountains of southeastern China 

 and migrates in winter to Cambodia and to southeastern and south- 

 western Siam. Dr. Smith states that he found it rather common on 

 hi'^ second visit to Kao Sabap but hard to collect, as it frequented the 

 tops of the tallest trees. Dr. Smith ^ has published some notes on the 

 habits anti gives the additional localities of Kao Seming, Krat, and 

 Ban Thung Luang, Fran River. The last is the first record for south- 

 western Siam. 



Family IRENIDAE: Fairy Bluebirds 



IRENA PUELLA PUELLA (Latham) 



Coracias puella Latham, Index ornithologicus, vol. 1, p. 171, 1790 ('India). 



One female, Doi Nangka, November 18, 1930; one male, Pang 

 Meton (Doi Nangka), May 3, 1931; two males and one female, Khun 

 Tan Mountains, 3,000-4,300 feet, May 12, 18, 1933; eight males and 

 two females, Khun Tan, 4,000 feet, October 21, 22, 1929, August 30- 

 September 3, 1930, February 17-24, 1932; one male and one female, 

 Pak Chong, December 16, 1926; one male. Lam ton Lang, June 1, 1934; 

 one male and one female, Kao Lem, December 27, 1930; one male, 

 Hupbon, October 31, 1931; eight males and six females, Nong Khor, 

 near Sriracha, November 14, 1924, September 30, 1925, March 22 and 

 November 11, 1926, February 5, 1927; three females, Nong Yang, 

 November 4, 1931 ; two males, Ban Sadet, Sriracha, June 1, 1926; two 

 males, Klong Yai, Sriracha, July 24, 28, 1932; one male and one female, 

 Ban Tarn Dam, March 6, 7, 1930; one male, Kao Bantad, Krat, 

 December 22, 1929; five males and two females, Kao Seming, Krat, 

 October 10-14, 1928; two males and one female, Kao Sabap, October 

 30, November 6, 1933; two adult males, three immature males and one 

 female, Koh Chang, January 6-11, 1926; March 10, 1930; three males 

 and one female, Koh Kut, May 22-25, 1929; one female, Sai Yak, 

 Kanburi, September 23, 1929; two females, Tha Lo, Bandon, Septem- 

 ber 24, 1931 ; three males and two females, Sichol, Bandon, September 

 1, 5, 1929, May 18, 1930; one male, Wat Kiriwong, Nakon Srita- 

 marat, July 25, 1928; one male, Kao Luang, Nakon Sritamarat. 



1 L'Oiseau, new ser., vol. 1, pp. 201-207, 1931. 



' Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 9, p. 329, 1934. 



