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and Kloss " say they did not meet with it north of Victoria Point 

 but have no doubt it extends north to Bangkok. Herbert '^ found it 

 breeding near Bangkok, nesting from early February to the end of 

 August, Robinson reports it for Koh Samui and Koh Pennan," 

 off Bandon: Pulo Terutau and Pulo Tehbun "; Koh Kut and lOong 

 Menao.^" 



The species has been divided into a number of more or less closely 

 related forms. 



ANTHREPTES RHODOLAEMA RHODOLAEMA SheUey 



Anthrepies rhodolaema Shelley, A monograph of the Nectariniidae, p. 313, pi. 

 101, fig. 1, 1878 (Malacca and Sumatra). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott secured two males in Trang, one at Lay Song 

 Hong, August 21, 1896, and the other simply labeled Trang, January 

 28, 1899. 



H. C. Raven collected a series of six males and three females in 

 Dutch Northeast Borneo; these when compared with the two Trang 

 males present some differences. The pileum and mantle of the 

 Bornean males are coppery green with little or no purple iridescence, 

 while the two Trang males have these parts darker green with a 

 shining light vinaceous-purple; the rump of the Bornean males is a 

 shining antliracene violet while that of the Trang males is a shining 

 hays blue with a violet wash on the taU coverts; and there are some 

 other minor differences. The Bornean bird evidently belongs to a 

 different form, which has been named A. r. aenea. 



Robinson and Kloss '^ found the form common at Chong, Trang. 

 Apparently not much is known of its habits. It ranges sparingly 

 from Tenasserim south through Peninsular Siam to the Malay States 

 and Sumatra. 



The male is easily distinguished from the male of A. m. malacensis 

 by the red cheeks, deeper brighter red of the throat, the deeper 

 brighter and more abundant red on the wing coverts, and the greener 

 yellow of the underparts. In the female the lowerparts are dull 

 citrine instead of lemon yellow. 



Robinson and Kloss " say that it is found farther inland than. 

 A. m. malacensis, which is more or less of a coast bird. 



» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 380, 1924. 



•» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 221, pi. 16, 1923. 



•♦ Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 5, p. 152, 1915. 



w Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 190, 1917. 



•• Ibis, 1915, p. 767. 



W n)ls, 19n, p. 70. 



