BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 393 



PYCNONOTUS PLUMOSUS PLUMOSUS BIyth 



Pycnonotus plumosus Bltth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 14, p. 567, 1845 

 (Singapore). 



Two males, Bangnara, Patani, May 22, 1924, July 20, 1926; one 

 male, Yala, Patani, January 2, 1931. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following in the Malay Peninsula: 

 One male, Victoria Island, Tenasserim, January 5, 1900; one male, 

 Tanjong Badak, Tenasserim, January 11, 1900; three males, Prah- 

 mon, Trang, February 20, 23 and March 10, 1896; one male, Telibon 

 Island, Trang, February 27, 1896; one male, Dungun River, Treng- 

 ganu, September 19, 1900; one female, Tanjong Dungun, Trengganu, 

 September 21, 1900; one female, Tanjong Laboha, Trengganu, 

 September 28, 1900; one female, Pulo Babi, east coast of Johore, July 

 28, 1901; two males, Singapore Island, May 12, 1899. He gives the 

 soft parts as: Iris dark red or reddish brown; bill black; feet fleshy 

 brown, claws brownish black. 



The present form ranges from southern Tenasserim south through 

 Peninsular Siam to Singapore and the nearby islands, Banka, and 

 eastern Sumatra. It is rare in the north but very common in the 

 southern part of its range. 



Robinson and Kloss ^^ record it from Koh Rah and Koh Pra Tung, 

 Takuapa, and Kandhuli, Chaiya, which are the northernmost records 

 for Peninsular Siam. 



A darker form, P. p. porphyreus Oberholser, occurs in west Sumatra 

 and the islands off the west coast of that island, and a larger form, 

 P. p. chiroplethis Oberholser, occurs in the Anamba Islands. The 

 Bornean bird has been named P. p. insularis by Chasen and Kloss. 

 Some form of the species occurs in Java, but I have seen only two adult 

 skins from there, and they are certainly not the same as mainland 

 birds. 



PYCNONOTUS BLANFORDI ROBINSONI OgUvie-Grant 



Pycnonotus robinsoni Ogilvie-Grant, Fasciculi Malayenses, pt. 3, p. 85, 1905 



(Patani). 



One male, Nakon Sritamarat, March 16, 1929; one male, Koh 

 Samet, September 1, 1931; one female, Koh Lak, June 15, 1933; 

 one female, Pran, May 27, 1928; one female. Bo Ploi, Kanburi, 

 September 26, 1929; four males and two females, Bangkok, July 30, 

 1924, February 7, 1925, February 6-April 4, 1926; one male and one 

 female, Pak Chong, October 5, 1926, November 27, 1929, one male, 

 Knong Phra, near Pak Chong, April 16, 1929; one male and three 

 females, Pang Sok, August 19-21, 1926; one female, Lera Sing, 

 Chantabun, June 13, 1926; one female, Koh Chang, March 4, 1924; 

 two males. Hin Lap, October 2, 1932; one female, Udon, February 18, 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 275, 1924. 



