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fio Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII,
d. i 3 ad. Sungei Udang, Terutau, 8th March.
1909.
TL. 310, 290, 273; W, 176, 171, 172; T, 158, 160, 145; B.
34, 28, 5,30; TS, 18, 19, 19.
" Iris orange, orbital ring and feet bright chrome, bill
yellowish green, tip and culmen green."
Fairly abundant, especially in the winter months, throughout
the Peninsula but much commoner in the northern half,
where its numbers are evidently largely augmented by
migrants. Some birds, however, probably reside throughout
the year as the museum possesses adults and extremely young
birds shot at Temengoh, Northern Perak, on July 15th.
The most southerly specimen I have been able to examine
is an adult male from Gunong Tampin, Negri Sembilan, and
this is undoubtedly the present form. Specimens from
Southern Johore and from Singapore will however not
improbably prove to be referable to the original Hierococcyx
fugax (Horsf.) described from Java, of which the present form
is only the continental race.
The species has not as yet been recorded from any part of
Siam except the Peninsula.
59. EUDYNAMIS orientai.is MALAYANA, Cab. and Heine.
Eudynamis orientalis, Robinson and Kloss, p. 41;
Robinson antea, vol. v, p. 146.
Eudynamis honorata (part.) Shelley, torn. cit. p. 316;
Robinson Ibis, 1915, p. 737.
Eudynamis malayana, Cab. and Heine. Mus. Hein. iv,
p. 52 (1862).
Eudynamis orientalis malayana, Hartert, Nov. Zool.
X, p. 236 (1903); Gyldenstolpe, p. 103.
.
a, b. ' 2 $ vix ad. Koh Kadan (Pulau Papan),
Trang, S. W. Siam. 7th-8th January, 1917.
[Nos. 3865-6]
"Iris red, bill greenish slate, legs slate."
TL.— ,415; W. 198,201; T, 211,214; B, 38, 40; TS, 34, 34.
Fairly common everywhere.
The races of the Koel have been much discussed from the
time of Walden (Ibis 1869, p. 239 et seq.), but no great degree
of unanimity seems to have been attained. In the Malay
Peninsula and possibly in Siam the question is further complicated
by the fact that individuals of two different races
appear to winter in the country while in addition there are
possibly birds who are resident throughout the year, though
we have no direct evidence on this point as the species is
extremelv rare anywhere on the mainland except in the north
of the Peninsula.
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