rfio Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII, 



d. i 3 ad. Sungei Udang, Terutau, 8th March. 

 1909. 



TL. 310, 290, 273; W, 176, 171, 172; T, 158, 160, 145; B. 

 34, 28, 5,30; TS, 18, 19, 19. 



" Iris orange, orbital ring and feet bright chrome, bill 

 yellowish green, tip and culmen green." • 



Fairly abundant, especially in the winter months, through- 

 out the Peninsula but much commoner in the northern half, 

 where its numbers are evidently largely augmented by 

 migrants. Some birds, however, probably reside throughout 

 the year as the museum possesses adults and extremely young 

 ■ birds shot at Temengoh, Northern Perak, on July 15th. 



The most southerly specimen I have been able to examine 

 is an adult male from Gunong Tampin, Negri Sembilan, and 

 this is undoubtedly the present form. Specimens from 

 Southern Johore and from Singapore will however not 

 improbably prove to be referable to the original Hierococcyx 

 fugax (Horsf.) described from Java, of which the present form 

 is only the continental race. 



The species has not as yet been recorded from any part of 

 Siam except the Peninsula. 



59. EUDYNAMIS orientai.is MALAYANA, Cab. and Heine. 



Eudynamis orientalis, Robinson and Kloss, p. 41; 

 Robinson antea, vol. v, p. 146. 



Eudynamis honorata (part.) Shelley, torn. cit. p. 316; 

 Robinson Ibis, 1915, p. 737. 



Eudynamis malayana, Cab. and Heine. Mus. Hein. iv, 

 p. 52 (1862). 



Eudynamis orientalis malayana, Hartert, Nov. Zool. 

 X, p. 236 (1903); Gyldenstolpe, p. 103. 



a, b. ' 2 $ vix ad. Koh Kadan (Pulau Papan), 

 Trang, S. W. Siam. 7th-8th January, 1917. 



[Nos. 3865-6] . 



"Iris red, bill greenish slate, legs slate." 

 TL.— ,415; W. 198,201; T, 211,214; B, 38, 40; TS, 34, 34. 

 Fairly common everywhere. 



The races of the Koel have been much discussed from the 

 time of Walden (Ibis 1869, p. 239 et seq.), but no great degree 

 of unanimity seems to have been attained. In the Malay 

 Peninsula and possibly in Siam the question is further com- 

 plicated by the fact that individuals of two different races 

 appear to winter in the country while in addition there are 

 possibly birds who are resident throughout the year, though 

 we have no direct evidence on this point as the species is 

 extremelv rare anywhere on the mainland except in the north 

 of the Peninsula. 



