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Family ROSTRATULIDAE: Painted-snipe 



ROSTRATULA BENGHALENSIS BENGHALENSIS (Linnaeus) 



Ralliis benghalensis Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, p. 153, 1758 (Bengal). 



One male and one female, Bangkok, October 23, 1926, and February 

 22, 1927. 



This bird is reported to be a common resident throughout Siam and 

 in the Malay Peninsula. Deignan ^ reports it resident throughout 

 the year at Chiengmai but common only during the rains. In the 

 cold weather he has found as many as ten under a bush a quarter of a 

 mile from any water. Forty ^^ found four young a few days old near 

 Bangkok on September 22; in the vicinity of Bangkok, Herbert** 

 found a nest and four eggs on July 6, a nest and four eggs on August 

 11, young nearly fully fledged on September 18, and young fully 

 fledged on October 3 ; later *' he reports that sets of eggs were received 

 in May, June, July, and August and that four eggs constitute a set. 



Robinson and Kloss *^ state that in the Malay Peninsula it is a 

 fairly common species. 



The species ranges from Asia Minor through Persia to southern 

 and eastern China and Japan, south to Indo-China, India, Philippines, 

 Sumatra, Java, and Borneo; also Africa, south of the Sahara. 



Family CHARADRIIDAE: Plovers, Turnstones, Surfbirds 



LOBIVANELLUS INDICUS ATRONUCHALIS BIyth 



Lobivanellus atronuchalis Blyth, in Jerdon, The birds of India, vol. 3, p. 648, 

 1864 (Burma). 



One male, two females, and one unsexed, Koh Chang, January 8 

 and 12, 1926; two males and two females, Pak Chong, eastern Siam, 

 February 4 and May 7, 1925; April 29 and May 9, 1926; one male 

 and one female, Muang Kanburi, April 14, 1918; one male, Sam 

 Roi Yot, November 14, 1932. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took a male and female at Prahmon, Trang, 

 March 10, 1896; a female with three eggs at Trang, February 24, 

 1899; a male on Pulo Langkawa, December 4, 1899; and a male and 

 female in Tenasserim (Tanjong Badak, November 25, 1900; Boyces 

 Point, February 16, 1904). He gives the soft parts as: Iris deep red 

 or dark orange; wattles, orbital skin, and basal part of bill red, tip 

 black; feet j^ellow with a tinge of greenish, claws black. 



Robinson *^ records it from Koh Samui and Koh Pennan and 

 later ^° from Pulo Tenitau; Herbert ^^ states that in Central Siam 



<* Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, p. 170, 1931. 



<» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 1, p. 55, 1914. 



" Ibid., p. 54. 



«' Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 6, p. 348, 1926. 



<s Joura. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 69, 1921. 



" Journ. Federated Malay Ststes Mus., vol. 5, p. 142, 1915. 



«o Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 138, 1917. 



»' Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 6, p. 346, 1926. 



