BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 97 



Baker ^^ from Paklat, near Bangkok ; Deignan ^^ from Ban Mechai, 

 Chiengrai, northern Siam, May 9, 10, 1936. 



The species ranges from southern Europe, Africa, Asia, and Ceylon 

 to Siam, Indo-China, etc. Usually resident; only migratory in the 

 northern part of its range. 



Family BURHINIDAE: Thick-knees 



ORTHORHAMPHUS MAGNIROSTRIS (Vieillot) 



Oedicnemis magnirostris Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., vol. 23, p. 231, 1818 

 (no locality; Australia). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected one male, Pulo Adang, Butang Islands, 

 December 17, 1899, and two males and two females in the Mergui 

 Archipelago (St. Luke Island, January 19, 1900; SulHvan Island, 

 February 1, 1900, and January 5, 1904; Bentinck Island, March 8, 

 1900). 



He gives the colors of the soft parts as: Iris yellow; feet pale green- 

 ish yellow or pale straw yellow, toes dark bone brown, claws black; 

 bill black, base greenish yellow. 



Robinson and Kloss ^^ record a male taken on Dehsle Island, 

 Peninsular Siam, February 19, 1919. This and the specunen col- 

 lected by Dr. Abbott on Pulo Adang apparently are the only speci- 

 mens taken in Siamese territory to date. The bird seems to be an 

 island-frequenting species rather than a mainland one. 



The species ranges over the greater part of the Indo-Australasian 

 region from the Andaman Islands to Australia. It has been divided 

 into a number of nominal forms based upon insufficient material. 



Family GLAREOLIDAE: Coursers, Pratincoles 



GLAREOLA MALDIVARUM Forster 



Glareola (Pratincola) maldivarum Fokster, Faunula Indica, p. 11, 1795 (Maldive 

 Islands). 



Eight males and four females, Bangkok, March 2, 1925, April 20 

 and June 3, 1926; September 16, 1925; one male, Nong Kae, Central 

 Siam, May 5, 1929. 



The United States National Museum has a small series from Lujon, 

 Philippines, and a male from Java. Apparently they do not differ in 

 color or size from Siamese specimens. McGregor ^* says it visits the 

 Philippines in the winter months, but the dates on a number of the 

 Museum's series, late March and April 28, are during the breeding 

 season farther north. Wliether it breeds in Java I do not Imow; the 



*' Journ. Nat. Hist. Soo. Siam, vol. 4, p. 39, 1920. 



w Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 10, p. 169, 1936. 



** Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. .5, p. .^6, 1921. 



" A manual of Philippine birds, pt. 1, p. 153, 1909, 



