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Order PICIFORMES 



Family CAPITONIDAE 



Genus MEGALAIMA G. R. Gray 



Megalaima virens virens (Boddaert) 



Bucco virens Boddaert, Table des planches enlumineez d'histoire 

 naturelle, 1783, p. 53 (China, ex d'Aubenton, pi. 871). 

 Range: The northern plateau, on the West south to Tak, and the 

 northwestern portion of the eastern plateau (Loei). 



Megalaima zeylanica hodgsoni Bonaparte 



Megalaimus [sic] hogdsoni [sic] Bonaparte, Conspectus generum 

 avium, torn. 1, pars 1, June 24, 1850, p. 144 (Nepal). 

 Range: Common in every part of the country from Chiang Rai 

 south to the Isthmus of Era. 



Megalaima zeylanica lineata (Vieillot) 



Capita lineatus Vieillot, Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire natu- 

 relle, nouv. ed., tome 4, December 1816, p. 500 ("I'Australasie" ; 

 type locality restricted to Java, by Stresemann, in Bartels and 

 Stresemann, Treubia, vol. 11, 1929, p. 118). 

 Range: Reported only from the southern peninsular provinces 

 (Trang, Pattani). 



Megalaima faiostricta praetermissa (Boden Kloss) 



Thereiceryx jlavostrictus [sic] prsetermissus Boden Kloss, Ibis, ser. 



10, vol. 6, No. 1, Jan. 22, 1918, p. 101 (southern China; type 



specimen from Naochow Island, Kwangtung Province, fide 



Peters, Checklist of bu'ds of the world, vol. 6, 1948, p. 33). 



Range: Reported from the northern plateau (Chaiya Prakan, 



Chiang Rai, Phayao, Lampang, Nan) and the eastern plateau (Loei, 



Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Phanom). 



Megalaima faiostricta faiostricta (Temminck) 



Bucco faiostrictus Temminck, in Temminck and Laugier, Nouveau 

 recueil de planches coloriees d'oiseaux, [livr. 88,] vol. 3, May 

 1831, pi. 527 and text (Cochm-China). 

 Range: Reported from the eastern plateau (Sara Buri, Nakhon 

 Ratchasima), the southeastern provinces, and the southwestern prov- 

 inces (Kamphaeng Phet, Prachuap Khiri Khan). 



Megalaima chrysopogon laeta (Robinson and Boden Kloss) 



Chotorhea chrysopogon subsp. laetus Robinson and Boden Kloss, 

 Journ, Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 8, pt. 2, December 

 1918, p. 141 (Bukit Tangga [lat. 2°5r N., long. 102°00' E.], 

 Negri Sembilan State, Malaya). 



