A COLLECTION OF BIRD-SKINS FROM SIAM. 27 



-^223. Otus bakkamcena lettia. 



Scops lettia, H<>dgs., As. Res. xix, p. 176 (1836). 

 6 Samray, Bangkok, C. Siam, 6.3.16. 



This specimen is a large bird with the bases of the toes 

 feathered as in the Northern Burmese and Himalayan form. 

 + 224. Carine brama pulchra. 



Athene pulchra, Hume, Str. Feath. i, p. 469 (1873). 

 2 6 Samkok, C. Siam, 22.6.15, and 17.3.16. 

 ? Krabin, C. Siam, 5.11.15. 



These birds are all quite typical pulchra, showing well the 

 special features noted by Hume. There seem to be three fairly 

 well defined races of Carine brama, i.e., 



Carine brama brama. Lighter coloured and larger ; wing 

 147-168 mm. Found over the whole of India north of the Deccan ; 

 Assam and North Chin Hills. 



Carine brama 'pulchra. Darker and smaller, wing 131-144 

 mm. Here and there large individuals occur, and there is a speci- 

 men in the British Museum from Siam with a wing of 154 mm. 

 and one other from Tounghoo with a wing of no less than 157 mm. 



The alleged difference between brama and pulchra in the 

 spotting of the head appears to be entirely individual and not spe- 

 cific or sub-specific. The tails of the latter are, however, more de- 

 finitely and more regularly barred than those of the former. 



This form inhabits Central and South Burma, the Malay 

 Peninsula (but to what extent south is not yet recorded), Siam, 

 Yunnan, Southern Shan States and ? Cambodia. 



Carine brama fryi. Darker and larger. Wing 152-167 

 mm. (one 141 mm., probably juv.) This bird was described by me 

 in the* Bull. B.O.C., ccxlvi, p. 60, 1919. The form is found in 

 practically the whole of South India as far north as the Deccan, and 

 I have seen typical specimens from Mysore, Travancore, Neilgher- 

 ries, Madras and the Deccan. 



-*- 225. Glaucidium cuculoides cuculoides. 

 Athene cuculoides, Vigors, P.Z.S., p. 8 (1830). 

 9 Chan Teuk, E. Siam, 15.8.15. 



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