A COLLECTION OF BIRD-SKINS FROM SIAM. 33 



1 have dealt with this little dove at length in " Indian 



Pigeons and Doves " (pp. 253-255) and see no reason to alter the 



conclusions I then came to. 



GALLINM 



Family Phasianid.e 



-^250. POLYPLECTRUM BICALGARATUM CHINQUIS. 



Pavo chinquis? Miill., Sup. Linn. Kyst. Nat., p 121 (1776). 



6 Klong Bang Lai, P. Siam, 19. 1. 16. 



Since writing on this genus in the Journal of the Bombay 

 Natural History Society (vol. xxiv, p. 209), a further study of 

 additional material has convinced me that it is really necessaiy to 

 divide it into two races which will stand as (1) P. b. bicalcaratum 

 for those birds found west of Assam, and (2 ) P. b. chinquis east of 

 the same Province. The Assam birds are intermediate, those from 

 the extreme east and south being nearer chinquis, whilst the birds 

 from the western districts of Goalpara, Kam'rup and Naogong are 

 practically true bicalcaratum. 



^251. GALLUS BANK1VA BANKIVA. 

 Phasianus bankiva, Raff, Trans. Linn Soc. xiii, p. 319 (1882) 

 Sumatra, 



3 6 1 ? Pak Jong, P. Siam, 18. 8. 15. 



tf $ Krabin, C. Siam, 6. 11. 15. 



The four birds obtained on the 18th August are a 1 young 

 birds. Ornithologists are gradually coming round to the view that 

 there is nothing to prove that the domestic fowl is the direct des- 

 cendant of the Indian Jungle-fowl, and that therefore the name 

 G alius gallus cannot properly be applied to it. 



252. GenNjEUS nycthemerus ripponi. 



Gennceus rijyponi, Sharpe, Bull. B.O.C xiii. p, 29 (1902), 



6 Muak Lek, E. Siam, 17.1.16. 



2 6 9 Pak Jong, E. Siam, 26-28.2.16. 



In a review of this genus in the Journal of the Bombay 

 Natural History Society (vol. xxiii, p. 658), I gave what we then 

 considered to be the range of the various sub-species of Kalij and^ 

 Silver Pheasants, but since then Silver Pheasants have been found 



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