BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 89 



Family SCOLOPACIDAE: Snipes, Woodcocks, Sandpipers 



NUMENIUS ARQUATA ORIENTALIS C. L. Brehm 



Numenius orientalis C. L. Brehm, Plandbuch der Naturgeschichte alien Vogel 

 Deutsclilands, p. 610, 1S31 (East Indies). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected two males in Trang (Prahmon, March 

 21, 1896; mouth of the Plian River, December 24, 1898); one male, 

 Kissering Island, Mergiii Archipelago, February 5, 1904; one female, 

 Tanjong Badak, Tenasserim, November 25, 1900; and one male, 

 Boyces Point, Tenasserim, February 12, 1904. 



This form breeds in the Baical region and Dauria and probably 

 westward, migrating late in summer to eastern Africa, India, Burma, 

 Indo-China, and the Malay Archipelago. 



Robinson and Kloss '^ state that it is numerous on the coasts of the 

 Malay Peninsula in the winter months; Gyldenstolpe ^^ observed only 

 a few specimens during his stay in Siamese Malaya, November 1914 

 to February 1915. 



NUMENIUS PHAEOPUS VAHIEGATUS (Scopoli) 



Tanlalus varicgatus Scopoli, Deliciae florae et faunae insubricae, pt. 2, p. 92, 

 1786 (no locality-Luzon). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected two females at Bok Pyin, Tenasserim, 

 February 16, 1900; and one female at Sir William James Island, 

 Mergui Archipelago, December 29, 1903. 



This form breeds in eastern Siberia and migrates south in the fall 

 as far as New Guinea, Australia, and the Pacific islands as far east 

 as the Marianne Islands. 



Robinson and Kloss "* report it common in the Malay Peninsula in 

 the winter months; Gyldenstolpe^^ observed great numbers on the 

 coast of the Gulf of Siam. 



TOTANUS TOTANUS EURHINUS Oberholser 



Totanus totanus eurhinus Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 22, p. 207, 

 1900 (Lake Tsonioriri. Ladak). 



One male, Meklong, April 12, 1926; one male, Bangkok, June 3, 

 1926; one female, Nakon Sritamarat, September 27, 1926. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected a female at Prahmon, Trang, March 7, 

 1896. 



This form breeds in the high mountains of western China, Tibet, 

 and India, and probably of the Altai, and migrates in fall to India, 

 Siam, Indo-China, the Malay Peninsula, Philippines, Sunda Islands, 

 and Celebes. 



" Ibis, 1911, p. 12. 



« Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 145, 191G. 



'♦ Ibis, 1911, p. 12. 



" Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 50, no. 8, p. 09, 1913. 



