191 8. J recently collected in Siam. 81 



who had worked at Lat Bua Kao in the month before my 

 visit, got several examples there iii beautiful plumage, 

 while my male is badly in moult. 



Diard's Pheasant is a popular aviary bird in Bangkok. 



"^ 2. Prancolinus chinensis (Osbeck) . 



1 ? ad. Lat Bua Kao. 



Iris brown; nostrils, culmen, and tip of bill black, 

 remaining parts fleshy ; feet orange-yellow. 



T. L. 280; W. 13J.; tarsus 37 ; bill from gape 24. 



Flushed in a patch of long grass surrounded by bush. 



"f- 3. Gallus gallus (Linn.). 



Gallus bankivu hmikivu Baker, Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. 

 Bombay, xxv. 1917, p. 18. 



1 ($ . Lat Bua Kao. 



4 (^ . Koh Mesan, oft' Cape Liant, S.E. Siam. Nov. 

 1916. 



1 c? , 1 ? . Koh Lak. 



Males. Iris deep orange, orange-brown, or umber ; bare 

 skin of head fleshy to pale crimson ; maxilla black or 

 brown ; mandible horny, pale grey, or fleshy ; feet brownish- 

 grey, slaty-grey, or plumbeous-black. 



Female. Iris dark ; skin of head deep fleshy ; feet dull 

 plumbeous. 



The four cocks from Koh Mesan have bluish-white neck- 

 patches, which are absent in the mainland birds. 



Males : W. 210^ 212*, 218, 219 ^ 224, 224. 



Female: AV. 175. 



Jungle-fowl were common at every place visited, and 

 were easily obtained in the early morning in open bush 

 or clearings at the edge of forest. I never succeeded in 

 getting an old male with a perfect tail, and only preserved 

 a few of the birds we shot. 



Stuart Baker has recently dealt with the Common Jungle- 

 fowl, of which he recognizes two forms : one ranging from 

 India through Assam to Sadiya, which he calls Gallus 

 bankiva ferrugineus, and the other occurring in Malaya, 



* Sub-adult. 

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