THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. Ill 



166. Otus luciae (Sharpe). 



Eeteroscops luciae, Shai pe, Ibis, 1888, p. 478 Kimi Balu, Borneo). 

 Heteroscops vidpes, O. Giant, Bull. Brit. Oin. Club, xix, 1906, p. 11 

 (Pahang) ; H., p. 91 (Bandon). 



Our single female from Bandon differs in certain respects 

 from the rest of our series from the more southern parts of the 

 Peninsula, notably in the colour of the flanks and abdomen, but we 

 are not as yet prepared to name it, nor do we think that the separa- 

 tion of the Malayan and Bornean birds is justified on the existing 

 material. 



167. Otus scops malayana (Hay). 



Scops malayana, Hay, Madras Journ. L. S., 18^5, xiii, pt. 2., p. 



147 (Malacca); B., p. 76 (Junk Seylon) ; F., p. 31 (Trang, 



Langkawi Ids). 

 Otus scops malayana, J., p. 145 (Langkawi Ids.) ; L., p. 94 (Junk 



Seylon.). 

 Scops pennatus, A., p. 34 (Meigui). 



The Little Owl is fairly common in the north of the Penin- 

 sula and is met with in two phases, a greyish brown and a clear 

 rufous. The synonymy is so complicated, and the question of local 

 races so obscure, that we have placed all oiu- specimens under Hay's 

 name, though it is possible that other or earlier titles may properly 

 apply. 



168. Otus bakkamoena lettia (Hodgs.). 



Scops lettia, Hodgson, Asiat. Res. xix, 1836, p. 176 (Nepal). 

 Otus hakkamoena lettia, J., p 145 (Pulau Dayaiig Bunting, Lang- 

 kawi Ids.). 



Probably only a migrant or winter visitor in the extreme 



soutji of Peninsular Siam, but certainly separable from 0. h. lempiji 



on account of its much larger size. It is this form which is common 



in Bangkok. 



169. Otus bakkamoena lempiji (Horsf.). 



Scops lempiji, Horpf., Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1821, p. 140 (Java) ; 



F., p. 31 (Langkawi Ids.) ; H., p. 91 (Bandon). 

 Otus hakkamoena lempiji, J., p. 145 (Langkawi Ids.). 



I. Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



56, No. 2, 1916. (first part). 



J. Robinson, Journ. F. M. S. BIus. vii, 1917. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



K. Kloss, Ibis, 1918. (second part). 



L. Kobinson and Kloss, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, M. I. Baker, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, iv, 1920. 



iii, 1919. (third part). 



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