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Bidan off the coast of Kedah, a most unlikely locality for C. enca 

 to be found in : this crow is a rare bird in the Peninsula, and when a 

 collection contains three similar examples of the genus the proba- 

 bility is that they belong to the present species. 



485. Corvus splendens insolens Hume. 



Gorvus insolens, Hume, Steay Feathers, ii, 1874, p. 480 (Tenas- 

 serim) ; A., p. 380 (Tavoy, Mergui) ; 0. i, p. 399, (Mergui and 

 Siam) ; Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. S. Vet. Akad. Handl. 50, No. 8, 

 1913, p. 18 (Bangkok and neighbourhood) ; Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 

 1920, p. 448 (" Siam" ex. coll. Mouhot ; also Bangkok). 



Gorvus splendens insolens, Williamson, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 

 1920, p. 105 (Petchaburi, fide Gairdner ; Pran, S. W. Siam) ; 

 Bulkley, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 1921, p. 195 (Petchaburi) ; 

 M. 2, p. 35 (Tenasserim ; Siam; N. Malay Peninsula). 



Though said by Gyldenstolpe to be very common in Bangkok 

 and its neighbourhood during his visits in 1911-1912, Williamson, who 

 has lived ia that city for many years, states that he has never seen 

 it there (Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, i, 1914, p. 76). 



486. Cissa chinensis chinensis Bodd. 

 Goracias chinensis, Bodd., Tabl. PL Enl. 1873, p. 38 ("China ": 



errore ! Southern Siam). 

 Gissa chinensis, A., pp. 385, 519 (Tavoy) ; 0. i, p. 406 (Tenasserim 

 south to Mergui) ; G., p. 148 (Eatburi & Petchaburi) ; M., p. 180 

 (Petriu & Hup Bon). 



1 c? . Hat Sanuk S. W. Siam, 17 April 1919 [No. 5371]. 



" Iris crimson ; bill and edge of eyelids blood red ; feet ver- 

 milion." 



Total length 398 ; wing 157 ; tail 223; tarsus 41 ; bill from 

 gape 41 mm. 



Baker's statement (loc. cit.) that Cissa chinensis viinor (type 

 locality, Sumatra) is the form hitherto accepted as inhabiting Siam 

 is one that we must query ; further the Green Hunting Crow was not 

 known from the Malay Peninsula (except Tenasserim) until it was 

 described by Ogilvie Grant as Cissa robinsoni (Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, 



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



56, No. 2, 1916. (first and second parts). 



ill Robinson, Journ. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. M. I. Baker, op. cit., iv, 1920 (third part). 



K. Kloss, Ibis, 1918. M. 2. Baker, Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, i, 1922. 

 L. Robinson and Kloss, Journ. N, H. Soc. Siain, 



iii, 1919. 



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