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1Q17.] H. C. Robinson: Birds from Pulau Langhawi. 140
There is extremely little local variation in this species
throughout its range and a series from Borneo differs in no
way from a large number from the Malay Peninsula. Individual
variation is considerable, the rufous huff of the belly and
flanks varying greatly in intensity. It is onl) very old birds
indeed that entirely lose the black, crescentic edgings to the
feathers of the sides of the breast indicative of immaturity.
A common rice-field bird wherever it occurs, though also
found on the higher reaches of the rivers in deep jungle.
Occasionally also on small islands in the Straits i>f Malacca
during the winter months, evidently on migration.
38. Halcyon chloris (Bodd.).
Shtirpt. tout. cit. p. 27.5, PI. VII, tig. 3; Robinson, Ibis
iqi5, p. 731.
Halcyon armstrongi, Sharpe : Robinson and Kloss, p.
34; Robinson, antea, vol. V, p. 145: vol. VII, p. 71.
Halcyon chloris armstrongi, Gyldenstolpe, p. 117.
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