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The species breeds in eastern Siberia and the Kurile Islands and 

 migrates to southeastern Asia to winter. It can be distinguished 

 from the other small stints wintering or passing through Si am by the 

 long middle toe and claw (about 36 mm). 



EnOLIA TESTACEA (Pallas) 



Scolopax testacea Pallas, in Vroeg's Beredeneerde catalogus, Adumbratiunculae, 

 p. 6, 1764 (Holland). 



Two females, Nakon Sritamarat, September 27 and 29, 1926, 

 Ogilvie-Grant ^^ records it from Patani; Wilhamson ^^ states that it 

 has been recorded by Aagaard from Nakon (Lacon) Sritamarat, 

 August 1-May 16, 1911-12, and from Chaiya, near Bandon, June 16, 

 1912; Robinson and Kloss ^^ record a male from Kuala Kedah, taken 

 November 1907. 



The species breeds in northern Siberia and migrates through 

 Europe to Africa and India, Indo-China, Siam, the Malay Peninsula, 

 and the Sunda Islands to Australia. 



UMICOLA FALCINELLUS (Brilnnlch) 



Scolopax falcinellus Brunnich, Ornithologia borealis, p. 49, 1764 (Zealand, 

 Denmark). 



One female, Nakon Sritamarat, September 28, 1926. 



Ogilvie-Grant ^^ records this species from Kampong Budi, Patani; 

 Williamson ^^ from the mouth of the Chao Phya River. 



The species breeds in northern Europe and Asia and migrates 

 south late in summer to the Red Sea, India, the Malay Peninsula, 

 the Philippines, and the Sunda Islands to Australia. 



Family RECURVIROSTRIDAE: Stilts, Avocets 



HIMANTOPUS HIMANTOPUS (Linnaeus) 



Charadrius himantopus Linnaeus, Systenaa naturae, ed. 10, p. 151, 1758 (south 

 Europe) . 



Four males and one female, Lem Sing, Chantabun, June 4-11, 

 1926; two females, Nakon Sritamarat, September 27, 1926. 



The Lem Sing specmiens are in worn breeding plumage and evi- 

 dently were breeding; an egg was taken from the oviduct of the female, 

 June 11. 



Gyldenstolpe ^° observed small flocks in the swampy country south 

 of Ratburi in January. Williamson ^^ records it from Meklong; 



>' Fasciculi Malayenses, pt. 3, p. 118, 1905. 



>• Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 2, p. 62, 1916. 



•Jlbis, 1911, p. 14. 



M Fasciculi Malayenses, pt. 3, p. 118, 1905. 



>« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 36, 1918. 



M Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. llauril., vol. 5(i, no. 2, p. 145, 1916. 



« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 35, 1918. 



