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the nesting season appears to be April and May, but lie had seen young 

 early in May and had taken fully incubated eggs by May 13 and a 

 set of three fresh eggs as late as June 20. 



Apparently the form is commonly distributed throughout the 

 whole country. 



The form ranges from Assam, south of the Brahmaputra, through 

 Burma to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and the Indo-Chinese 

 countries. It is resident where found. 



HOPLOPTERUS DUVAUCELII (Losson) 



Charadrius duvaucelii Lesson, Diet. Sci. Nat. (Levrault), vol. 42, p. 38, 1826' 



(Calcutta). 

 Charadrius ventralis Waglee, Systema avium, Charadrius, sp. 11, p. 59, 1827 



(Calcutta). 



One female, Chomtong, northern Siam, November 29, 1928, "in 

 flocks on river Ping"; one male and one female, Ta Fang, January 17, 

 1933. 



The United States National Museum contains a male and a female 

 taken by Dr. W. L. Abbott at Lay Song Hong, Trang, August 16 

 and October 28, 1896. He describes tlie soft parts as: Iris blackish; 

 bill black; feet and legs dull black. 



Robinson and Kioss ^^ think Dr. Abbott's specimens represent the 

 southern limit in the Peninsula. De Schauensee found it common at 

 Chiengrai, northern Siam, in winter ^^ and on the Mekong and Mekok 

 rivers on sandbars.^* Lowe states that it breeds in February in 

 western Siam, laying two eggs in the river bed on sandy gravel." 



In Siam the species is generally distributed along the larger rivers 

 of the whole country and in Peninsular Siam as far south as Trang. 



The species ranges from northern and eastern India east to Assam 

 and Yunnan and south to Indo-China, Siam, and the Malay Peninsula 

 as far as Trang. 



SQUATAROLA SQUATAROLA (Linnaeus) 



Tringa squatarola Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 149, 1758 (Sweden). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected a female at Prahmon, Trang, March 19, 

 1896. 



Robinson *^ records a female from Koh Muk, Trang, January 5, 

 1917; Gyldenstolpe " observed it once at Koh Lak; Williamson^* 

 records it from Paloiam, Chantabun. 



The breeding range of this species is circumpolar. It migrates- 

 south late in summer. On migration it usually frequents sea beaches 

 or salt-water mud flats. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, 1921, p. 59. 

 M Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 81, p. 581, 1930. 

 M Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 27S, 1934. 

 M Ibis, 1933, p. 490. 



"Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 138, 19J7. 

 " Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 50, no. 2, p. 143, 1916. 

 »' Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 34, 1918. 



