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196. Halcyon pileata (Bodd.). 



Alcedo jnleata, Bodd., Tabl. PI. Enl, 1783, p. 41 (China). 



Halcyon pileata, A., pp. 74, 499 (Tavoy to Bankasoon) ; E., p. 110 

 (Patani) ; F., p. 34 (Peninsular Siam) ; J., p. 148 (Langkawi 

 and Terutau) ; L., p. 95 (Junk Seylon) ; Williamson, Journ. N. 

 H. S. Siam ii, 1917, p. 335 (S. W. and Peninsular Siam). 



Entomohia jnleata, B., p. 46 (Junk Seylon). 



2. Pangnga, Peninsular Siam, 2 February 1919 (No. 3954). 



5. Tung Pran, Takuatung, Peninsular Siam, 14 February 

 1919 (No. 4010). 



2. Koli Rah, Takopah, Peninsular Siam, 15 February 1919 

 (No. 4028). 



" Iris dark ; bill blood red ; feet dark red, scales edged with 

 black." 



Total length, 291, 305, 305; wing, 128, 130, 135; tail, 88, 93, 

 98; tarsus, 17, 17, 17; bill from gape, 68, 71, 77 mm. 



Throughout its immense range, from Korea to Celebes, and 

 from the Bombay Presidency to China, this species seems extraordi- 

 narily stable in its characters and is not divisible into local races. 



It is very common in southern Peninsular Siam (though we 

 did not actually collect specimens in Bandon) and rather less so as 

 one travels northward. 



197. Halcyon chloris armstrongi Sharpe. 



Halcyon armstrongi, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit Mus. xvii, 1892, p. 



277, pi. vii, fig. 1 (Siam). 

 Halcyon chloris, A., p. 78 ( Tenasserim ; Mergui ) ; K., p. 92 



(Tachin). 

 Halcyon chloris armstrongi, I., p. 1 1 7 (Koh Lak). 

 Sauropatis chloris chloris, M., p. 435 (Meklong, nr. Bangkok). 

 Sauropatis chloris, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) VII, 1889, p. 



433 (Malewoon). 



6. Koh Lak, S. W. Siam, 2 April 1919 (No. 4947). 



" Iris dark ; maxilla black, mandible pinkish white, tip black ; 

 feet greenish." 



Total length, 240; wing, 101 ; tail, 72; tarsus, 17; bill from 

 gape, 57 mm. 



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



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



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



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



I" 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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