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specimen from Junk Seylou. We Jo not tliiuk it advisable to regard 

 this bird as a subspecies of the widespread H. fnrfax, forms of which 

 also occur in the district. 



239. Cuculus micropterus micropteriis Gould. 



Cuculus mieropteiits, Goidd, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 137 Himalayas) ; 



A., p. 156 (near Mergui > : D., p. 74 .^Patani^ : E., p. 40 (Traug ; 



Langkawi) ; J., p. 159 (Langknvi). 

 Ciiculus striatus, B., p. 54 (Junk St-ylon). 



Fairly common in winter. 



240. Cuculus canorus bakeri Hartert. 



Faun. Pal. Vog. ii, 1912, p. 948 (Shillong). 



6 vix ad. Koh Lak, S. W. Siam, 6 April 1919 (No. 5123). 



" Iris brown, orbital ring chrome ; bill yellowish, black on 

 culmen, reddish at base ; feet pale yellow." 



Total length 332; wing 198; tail 172; tarsus 19; bill from 

 gape 28 mm. 



It seems most convenient to refer this bird to the Assamese 

 race. It has nothing to do with C. micvopferus, as the tail is uni- 

 form blackish gre}'^ with no trace of a subterminal band ; upper 

 surface ash grey, paler on head ; bands on chest dark brown, narrower 

 than in C. micro'pterus. 



241. Penthoceryx sonnerati venustus (Jerdon). 



Cvctdua venustus, Jerdoii, Madr. Journ. xiii, 1842, p. 140 (Malacca). 

 Penthoceryx sonnerati, B., p. 52 (.Junk Seylon) : E., p. 40 (Trang) ; 



L. p. 98 (Ghirbi). 

 Penthoceryx sonnerati pravata, Robinson «fe Kloss, Journ. F. M. S. 



Mu.s. viii, pt. 2, 1918, p. 135 (North iMalay Peninsu'a). 

 Pe^ithoceryx sonnerati vemistns. Baker, Bull. Brit. Oin. Club, xxxix, 



1919, p 46 (Central Teuasserim, .^outlnvard.s). 



Our specimens possess the characters given for P. venustus 

 ( Jerdon) by Mr. Baker (I. c. ft.). 



A. Uiime & Davison, Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. E« O. Grant, Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds), 1905. 



B. Miillcr, nie Ornis dcr Insel Salanga. 188-3. F. Bolnnson ami Kloss, Ujis, 1910-11. 



C. (lalus. Birds Urit. Buriiiali, A'ols. i \- ii. 18*3. G. Uairdner, Journ. X. H. Sik;. Siam, i, 191.'>. 



D. lionhote, V. Z. S. 1901, Vol. i. H. Hohinson, .lourn. F. M. S. Museums, v, 1915. 



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