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| Cameroon Highlands, 1200 feet, Malaysia; 5/79 ssp albescens |
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| Siberut Is, Indonesia ssp appolonia female |
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| Lingga Island ssp cardinali male |
Quite common if the Cameron Highlands of Mayasia (as ssp albescens),
Sumatra ( ssp trogon), less common on Borneo but still locally common
(nominate ssp). A distince race occurs on the islands of Pulau Singkep
east of Sumatra (cardinali). Commercially reared and exported in
vast quantities annually primarily for "artwork." A fourth race natunensis
has been described from Natuna Island but is not well known. T.
trojana from Palawan has been considered a subspecies of brookiana
by some but is quite distinct.