2 BULLETIN 98, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Standards and Nomenclature. 1 All species not represented in the 

 collection by specimens, but included solely on the authority of Doctor 

 Abbott or Mr. Kloss are prefixed with an asterisk. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



The only published notes on the birds of the Anamba Islands occur 

 in the following papers: 



Kloss, C. Boden. — Notes on a Cruise in the Southern China Sea. 

 Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. 41, 

 January, 1904, pages 53-80. 



Oberholser, Harry C. — A Monograph of the Genus Collocalia. 

 Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 

 April (July 26), 1906, pa^es 177-212. 



Oberholser, Harry C. — A Monograph of the Flycatcher Genera 

 Hypothymis and Cyanonympha. Proceedings of the United States 

 National Museum, vol. 39, February 25, 1911, pages 585-615. 



Oberholser, Harry C. — A Revision of the Forms of the Edible 

 Nest Swiftlet, Collocalia fuciphaga (Thunberg). Proceedings of the 

 United States National Museum, vol. 42, March 6, 1912, pages 11-20. 



Oberholser, Harry C. — A Synopsis of the Races of the Crested 

 Tern, Thalasseus bergii (Lichtenstein) . Proceedings of the United 

 States National Museum, vol. 49, December 23, 1915, pages 515-526, 

 pi. 66. 



PHYSIOGRAPHY. 



The Anamba Islands are situated in the southern portion of the 

 South China Sea, between the Natuna Islands and the Malay Penin- 

 sula. The center of the group lies approximately in latitude 3° 

 north and in longitude 106° east; and in an air line is about 140 

 miles from the nearest point of the Malay Peninsula, 225 miles from 

 Borneo, 240 miles from Sumatra, 610 miles from Java, and 400 

 miles from the nearest part of the mainland of Cochin China. 



There are about 20 principal islands, and possibly 200 more islets 

 and rocks, spread over a geographical area some 55 miles east and 

 west and 65 miles north and south. All fall roughly into three 

 groups: A southern group, which includes Pulo Repon, Baua, 

 Rittan, Riabu, Piling, and White Rock; a northern group, which 

 includes Pulo Siantan, Mata, Mobur, Kelong, Minjalin, Panjang, 

 and Manguan; and a western group, made up of Pulo Jimaja, 

 Telaga, Little Telaga, and Pulo Domar, with, as in the other groups, 

 many islets and rocks. 



Nearly all the islands are high and rocky, formed chiefly of hard 

 rocks and laterite, and with a fringe of coral reefs about their bases. 

 There are also many coral reefs between the islands; while the 



1 Ridgway, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, 1912 (Jan. 16, 1913). 



