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few specimens examined by me from there were taken in fall. The 

 few breeding birds examined from China apparently do not differ 

 from Siamese specimens. For the present, without more evidence, 

 it does not seem to be worth while to recognize Glareola maldivarum 

 orientalis Leach. 



Herbert ^® states that the bird comes to Siam to breed late in 

 winter and breeds in colonies; at Sapatoom eggs were very plentiful 

 by March 16, but in the colon}'- at Samkok eggs were not plentiful 

 until the latter part of April. Another colonj^ at Ayuthia bred about 

 the same time as that at Samkok. The Sapatoom birds leave earlier, 

 as their numbers are gradually reduced during May and June, but 

 some young remain until August 8. A set of three fresh eggs was 

 taken at Samkok on June 15. Two, and sometimes three eggs, 

 constitute a set. Gyldenstolpe ^^ took a pair at Koh Lak on Decem- 

 ber 1, 1914; Deignan ^^ found it common at Nawng Haw in March 

 1929; de Schauensee ^^ took three specimens at Hua Mak, March 17; 

 Robinson and Kloss *° record a male from Koh Lak, taken April 16. 

 I have seen no records for Peninsular Siam, though it has been taken 

 in Kedah. 



The species breeds from southeastern Siberia, Mongoha, and 

 southern Manchuria south to India, Siam, and Indo-China and 

 migrates through the Malay Archipelago to Australia. 



GALACHRYSIA LACTEA (Temminck) 



Glareola lactea Temminck, Manuel d'ornithologie, ed. 2, vol. 2, p. 503, 1820, 

 (Bengal). 



Two females. Ban Tai, February 27, 1929. 



This species has been recorded by Baker ''^ from Krabin, central 

 Siam, and by Chasen and Kloss *^ from the Raheng District, western 

 Siam, Deignan ^^ found a single bird at Nawng Haw, northern 

 Siam, in March 1929; de Schauensee^* found it common on the 

 sandbars in the Mekong on both sides of the river at Chieng Sen, 

 February 12; Lowe *^ found it very common during the first week 

 of ALarch near Kempempet on the Meping. 



The species ranges from Ceylon to India, Burma, northern Siam, 

 and southern Laos. 



«• Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 6, p. 344, 1926. 



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«s Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Ili.st. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 170, 1931. 



»« Proc. APa<l. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, p. 278, 1934. 



« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 56. 1921. 



« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 4, p. 38, 1920. 



«' Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 7, p. 160, 1928. 



« Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 171, 1931. 



" Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 278, 1934. 



« Ibis, 1933, p.490. 



