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6 . Hat Sanuk, S. W. Siain, 18 April 1919 [No. 5386]. 



" Iris dark hazel ; lappets rich chrome ; bill orange yellow at 

 tip ; feet pale chrome." 



Total length 275; wing 165; tail 82; tarsus 34 ; bill from 

 gape 35 mm. 



508. Gracula javana subsp. 



Eidabes javanensis, F., p. 67 (Langkawi). 



Eulahes inte7'mecUus, H., p. 150 (Koh Samui & Koh Pennan). 

 Gi-acula java7ia javana, J., J). 185 (Langkawi; Pulo Muntia ; Pulo 

 Loiitar) . 



1 ?, 1 $imm. Tung Pran, P. Siam, 13 Feb. 1919 [ Nos. 

 3974-5]. 



(S . Koh Yam Yai (Sugar Loaves Is.), off Takuapa, P. Siam, 

 18 Feb. 1919 [No. 4114]. 



d , 2 . De Lisle L, P. Siam, 19 Feb. 1919 [Nos. 4123-4]. 



Soft parts as in G. j. interinedia. 



Total length c^ , 303, 313; $ , 268, 296 imm., 291 ; wing S , 

 176,177; $,158,163 imm., 165 ; tail <^ , 83, 94, $, 87, 88 imm., 

 87 ; tarsus d , 38, 37 ; $ 38, 36 imm., 35 ; bill from gape 6 , 37, 40 ; 

 $ , 39, 39 imm., 38 mm. 



Our very large series shows that all northern mainland birds 

 as far south as Trang, and including those from Junk Seylon, have 

 nothing in common with G. j. javana from the south of the Penin- 

 sula, which ranges northwards as far as Trang in which state typical 

 specimens of both forms occur. 



The status of birds from the islands on the coasts of Penin- 

 sular Siam, both east and west, is very variable, and specimens occur 

 which can without doubt be assigned to either form or to neither. 

 On the whole, birds from Koh Pennan, Pulo Lontar, Koh Muk, 

 Pulo Terutau and Pulo Langkawi are nearest to G. j. javana ; those 

 from Koh Samui are very near G. j. interinedia as are also, but less 

 defined, those from Takuatung. 



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



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



J. Kobinson, Jonrn. 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. B.obinson and Kloss, Journ, N. H. Soc. Siam, 



iii, 1919. 



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