BIRDS FROM SIAM AND THE MALAY PENINSULA 37 



latitude of Penang; de Scliauensee '* took a male at Chieng Sen, 

 February 13. A related form is found in Africa. 



LEPTOPTILOS JAVANICUS (Horsfidd) 



Ciconia javanica Horspield, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, vol. 13, 188, 1821 (Java). 



One male, Potaram, August 3, 1926. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took a male at Prahmon, Trang, April 10, 1896, 

 and a male at Champang, Tenasserim, December 1903. 



Dr. Abbott gives the color of the soft parts as: Iris dirty gi'ayish 

 white; bill pale brownish horn, tinged with greenish; feet and claws 

 black; naked skin on neck yellow, a small patch below and in front duU 

 red; scalp dii'ty gray. Weight of male from Trang, 9 pounds; male 

 from Tenasserim, 11)^ pounds. 



Robinson and Ivloss ^^ record a specimen taken at Lay Song Hong, 

 Trang, under the name Leptoptilus dubius, which they afterward cor- 

 rected; Gyldenstolpe ^^ took a female at Koh Lak and observed it south 

 of Ratburi; Robinson and Kloss ^* record a male from Koh Naka Yai, 

 Puket; and the same authors,^® writing of Southwest and Peninsular 

 Siam, say it is common throughout the area, generally in rice fields in 

 mangrove swamps, and on the coastal flats. 



The species ranges from Ceylon to eastern India, Burma, and south- 

 ern China, south to Indo-China, Siam, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, 

 Java, and Borneo. 



Family PLEGADIDAE: Ibises and Spoonbills 



PSEUDIBIS DAVISONI (Hume) 



Geroniicus davisoni Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. 3, p. 300, 1875 (Pakchan Estuary, 

 Tenasserim) . 



One adult male. Ban Nong Keng, no date. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott took an adult female at Prahmon, Trang, March 

 14, 1896 ; and an adult female at Champang, Tenasserim, December 19, 

 1903. 



Dr. Abbott gives the soft parts in the female as follows: Iris orange- 

 red; feet dull red; claws black; biU dark plumbeous; naked head black, 

 a broad collar bluish white. In the male: Iris reddish orange; feet 

 pinkish purple; bill leaden (jade color); head dull black; collar pale 

 blue, darker behind. 



Robinson ^° reports it from Lay Song Hong, Trang, from the Bandon 

 River, Bandon,^^ and from Pulo Lontar^^; Robmson and Kloss ^^ from 



» Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 86, p. 279, 1934. 



"Ibis, 1911, p. 16. 



" Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 141, 1916. 



'8 Journ. Nat. nist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 92, 1919. 



i» Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, p. 75, 1921. 



«»Ibis, 1911, p. 17. 



•1 Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 5, p. 89, 1915. 



" Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 7, p. 141, 1917. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 92, 1919. 



