BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 489 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected the following in Trang: One adult male, 

 three adult females and two immature males, Telibon Island, March 

 1, 1896; one male, Prahmon, March 4, 1896; one adult female, Katany, 

 January 15, 1897; one adult female, Trang, December 28, 1898. He 

 gives the soft parts as: Iris bright red; bill black; feet brownish black 

 (adult); iris light red (young). 



The series from the Malay Peninsula has slightly longer wings than 

 a small series from Java; Bornean birds are hardly, if at all, difl'erent 

 from the latter, however. I have examined only one male from 

 Sumatra, and it has a longer culmen than any measured from Penin- 

 sular Siam, almost if not quite equaling specimens from Pulo Taya 

 (i. p. richmondi Oberholser), but the wing is shorter. 



Eight males from Peninsular Siam measure: Wing, 98-102 (100.4); 

 tail, 59-66.5 (63); culmen, 15.5-18.5 (17) mm. Ten females: Wing, 

 93.5-102 (97.8); tail, 57.5-63 (59.3); culmen, 16.5-18 (17.2) mm. 

 Seven males from Java: Wing, 92-99 (95.3); tail, 59-62.5 (60.2); 

 culmen, 16-18 (17) mm. Six males from Borneo: Wing, 94.5-99 

 (96.6); tail, 60-63 (61.2); culmen, 16-18 (17) mm. Two males from 

 Pulo Taya: Wing, 108.5-110; tail, 69-72; culmen, 19-19.5 mm. One 

 male from eastern Sumatra: Wing, 99; tail, 63; culmen, 19 mm. One 

 male from Banka: Wing, 97; tail, 60.5; culmen, 17 mm. 



L. p. halidypus ranges from the Malay States north through Penin- 

 sular Siam to southern Tenasserim. It has been reported as far 

 north in Peninsular Siam as Mamoh by Robinson and Kloss.^® Robin- 

 son " records it from Koh Samui and Koh Pennan (Pangan). 



The species is split up into a number of nominal races, the majority 

 of them inhabiting islands and not being found, as a rule, far from the 

 sea, though there are two or three mountain species known. 



STURNIA SINENSIS (Gmelln) 



Oriolus sinensis Gmelin, Systema naturae, vol. 1, p. 394, 1788 (China). 



Two males, Bangkok, March 7 and October 23, 1924; one male, 

 Vichienburi, February 26, 1934; one unsexed, Rayasothon, March 23, 

 1929; one male, Nakon Sritamarat, November 22, 1923. 



A pair was received through Dr. W. L. Abbott and collected by 

 C. Boden Kloss at Tanjong Kalong, Singapore, February 26, 1900. 



The species breeds in southeastern China and northern Indo-China 

 and winters in the southern Indo-China countries, Burma, Siam, the 

 Malay Peninsula, and the Philippines. 



Williamson ^^ says that they occur at Bangkok from September until 

 February and a few remain as late as April. Robinson and Kloss ^' 

 state that Williamson has a series of this species from Petchaburi, 



'• Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 354, 1924. 



" Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 5, p. 151, 1916. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. See. Siam, vol. 1, p. 202, 1915. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 355, 1924. 



