KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 56. N:0 2. 159 
353. Pavo muticus. Linn. — The Burmese Peafowl. 
Pavo muticus: Gyldenstolpe I p. 66; Barton p. 108; Gairdner p. 40; Robinson & Kloss p. 672; Grant p. 108; 
Bonhote p. 70; Robinson I p. 87; Gairdner p. 151. 
o juv. Chieng Sen 1%/s 1914. L = 680 mm.; W = 296 mm.; T = 273 mm.; C = 32 mm. — Irides: 
brown. Bill: horn colour. Legs: brown. 
Though I heard the calls of the Peafowl several times during my travels in the 
Northern Districts I only succeeded in shooting a young male specimen of the Burmese 
Peafowl. According to the natives Peacocks are said to be very abundant along the 
lower course of the Meh Ping river. Early in the mornings and in the afternoon Pea- 
fowls used to come down to the small islands and sandbars which are so numerous in 
this magnificent river but when I passed down the whole river from Chieng Mai to 
Paknam Po I never heard nor saw a single specimen. 
In the Siamese Malaya I neither saw nor heard the calls of a Peafowl and the na- 
tives I questioned did not know about their occurrence in the parts I was able to visit. 
Further north in the Ratburi and Petchaburi Districts they have been stated to be »quite 
common» (GATRDNER). 
Additional remarks. 
Corvus macrorhynchus WaGu. (page. 16). 
In his recently published review of the forms of the Corvus coronoides Group (Verh. 
Ornith. Gesellschaft in Bayern. XII. 1916, pp. 277—304) Mr. E. StresEMANN has re- 
cognized several races some of which are described as new. On page 295 STRESEMANN 
writes: »Aus Kambodja und Siam habe ich kein Material untersuchen kénnen, aber es 
ist wohl anzunehmen, dass dort eine Form lebt die hainanus mit andamanensis verbindet». 
During my stay in Siam I unfortunately only collected one single specimen of the 
Jungle Crow, though it was very common, indeed, throughout the whole country. As 
compared with a specimen from Tenasserim in the collections of the Royal Natural 
History Museum in Stockholm the Siamese specimen is somewhat different. The Te- 
nasserim birds are referred by STRESEMANN to Corvus coronoides andamanensis BEAVAN. 
The Hainan birds which are described by STRESEMANN under the name of Corvus coro- 
noides hainanus are distinguished from the Indian ones (C. coronoides levaillantit Luss. ) 
by their large bills. About the Hainan form STRESEMANN further writes: »Die Federn 
des Riickens besitzen bei levaillanti: und seinen nachsten Verwandten ziemlich schmale, 
schwarze, fettig glinzende Endsiume, bei harnanus dagegen sind dieselben so breit, 
dass bei geordnetem Gefieder kaum etwas von den rétlichblau-metallischen Partien 
der Federn zu sehen ist. Die Aussensdume der Armschwingen sind schwarzlicher, gleich- 
falls mit Fettglanz, nicht so intensiv violett reflektierend. Die Basis des Korpergefie- 
ders ist rauchgrau bis hellgrau, nur bei einem Exemplar der Reihe grauweiss. Endlich 
