Phasianidae

Rollulus rouloul
Crested Partridge
Roelroel (Dutch)

ZMA 25912
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Near-Threatened Inhabits the open floor of tall primary forest in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Borneo, and islands in between. Restricted to lowlands, where all primary forest is cut at a rapid scale, but the bird tolerates dense secondary forest and is locally still common, despite a high hunting pressure.

Items in the ZMA - 43 birds:
ZMA 14233 Female, Sep 1915, Tumbang Maruwei (0°22'S, 114°40'E; 84 m), on Laung River, C Kalimantan, Indonesia, coll. C. Lumholtz 51, skin.

ZMA 14234 Male, Mar-Apr 1916, Busang R.-Kasau R. watershed (c. 0°40'N, 114°00'E), Müller Mts., C Kalimantan, Indonesia, coll. C. Lumholtz 205, skin.

ZMA 18846 & 39862 Juvenile male & adult [female], died 19 Aug 1963 & 23 Dec 1969 in the Amsterdam Zoo, skins.

ZMA 25893 [Male], 25 Jan 1939, Kotabumi (04°52'S, 104°59'E), Lampung Province, S Sumatra, coll. F. Heubel, skin.

ZMA 25894 [Male], Mar 1898, Marabok River [= Merapok R. (04°56'N, 115°26'E)], Sabah, N Borneo, coll. J. Waterstradt, skin.

ZMA 25895-25899 & 25900-25903 Five [males] & four [females], undated [before 1900], [Lampung Province, S Sumatra], Indonesia, collector unknown, 'local names: Burung Pariju or - Sunungan', skins.

ZMA 25905 [Male], no data, collector unknown [make as in some other poorly documented birds from Sumatra taken in the early 1900s], skin.

ZMA 25905-25906 Males, undated [Mar-May 1907], 'midden-Sumatra' [= Mt Sunggirik & sources of Batanghari, Indragiri & Kamparkiri rivers, 0°10'-0°57'S, 100°58'-101°25'E, central Sumatra], Indonesia, coll. J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan, skins.

ZMA 25907-25909 & 25910-25911 Three [males] & two [females], [1898-1904], Batangkuis area (c. 03°34'N, 98°50'E), Deli, NE Sumatra, Indonesia, coll. K. Waldeck, presented 23 Dec 1904, skins.

ZMA 25912-25916 Two males & three females, 29 Oct, 28 Nov (twice), 30 Nov & 16 Dec 1919, Sungei Tasik (03°49'N, 98°15'E), Langkat, NE Sumatra, Indonesia, coll. A.F.C.A. van Heijst 1898, 010-011, 018 & 087, skins.
['Common in Langkat in dense primary forest, though flocks rather local' - card systen Van Heijst]

ZMA 25917-25919 Two males & a female, 7 Jan & (twice) 6 Apr 1915, Serbadjadi (03°23'N, 98°57'E), 58 m, Serdang, NE Sumatra, Indonesia, coll. D.J. van Balen, ex L.P. le Cosquino de Bussy 242a, 242c & 242d, skins.

ZMA 25920-25924 [One female & four males], 11 Jun 1916, 27 June 1916, 22 May 1916, 27 Jun 1916 & undated, Serbadjadi (03°23'N, 98°57'E), 58 m, Serdang, NE Sumatra, Indonesia, coll. L.P. le Cosquino de Bussy 242e, 242f, 242g, 242h & no nr (the latter through the Colonial Institute, KI 17), skins.

ZMA 47967 Male, 20 Apr 1937, Tanjung Pandan (02°44'S, 107°36'E), W Belitung, Indonesia, coll. F.J. Kuijper 525, ex Sillem-Van Marle 967, skin.

ZMA 48544 Male, 14 May 1920, Simpang (Danau/Lake) Toba (at c. 02°25'N, 99°08'E), Asahan district, N Sumatra, coll. F.C. van Heurn, ex Sillem-Van Marle 1544, skin.

ZMA 48545 Female, 17 Sep 1920, Alas Peurba (05°00'N, 97°10'E), Aceh, N Sumatra, Indonesia, coll. F.C. van Heurn, ex Sillem-Van Marle 1545, skin.

ZMA 56764 Female, no data [before 1860], 'Cryptonia coronatus 1', mounted.
[This name was in use from 1815 to 1853, and probably the bird dates from this period; the estimate 'before 1860' is from the type of its stand.]

ZMA 56765 Male, no data [before 1880], mounted.

ZMA 56766 Male, undated [before 1880], 'Sumatra', mounted.

ZMA 56767Immature male, died 19 Oct 1928 in the Amsterdam Zoo, mounted.

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