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353. Pavo muticus. Linn. The Burmese Peafowl. 



Pavo muticus: Gyldenstolpe I p. GG; Barton i>. 108; Gairdner p. 40; Robinson & Kloss ]>. 672; Grant p. 108; 

 Bonhote j>. 70; Robinson 1 p. S7; Gairdner p. 151. 



c? juv. Chieng Son l % 1914. L == 680 mm.; W 296 mm.; T 273 mm.; C = 32 mm. - Iridej 

 brown. Bill: horn colour. Legs: brown. 



Though I heard fche 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 abiindant 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 ha ve been stated to be »quite 

 common» (Gairdner). 



Addition al remarks. 



Corvus macrorhynchus Wagl. (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 Siarn habe ich kein Material untersuchen können, aber es 

 ist wohl anzunehmen, dass dort eine Form lebt die hainanus mit andamanensis verbindet». 



During my stay in Siarn 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 levaillantii Less.) 

 by their large bilis. About the Hainan form Stresemann further writes: »Die Federn 

 des Riickens besitzen bei levaillantii und seinen nächsten Verwandten ziemlich schmale, 

 schwarze, fettig glänzende Endsäume, bei hainanus dagegen sind dieselben so breit, 

 dass bei geordnetem Gefieder kaum etwas von den rötlichblau-metallischen Partien 

 der Federn zu sehen ist. Die Aussensäume der Armschwingen sind schwärzlicher, gleich- 

 falls mit Fettglanz, nicht so intensiv violett reflektierend. Die Basis des Körpergefie- 

 ders ist rauchgrau bis hellgrau, nur bei einem Exemplar der Reihe grauweiss. Endlich 



