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writing of Peninsular Siam, state that it is common on the west 

 coast of Siam, but they had not seen it on the east coast, though they 

 were assured it breeds on a small island off the coast of Nakon Srita- 

 marat. 



The jace occurs from northern Australia northward to Java, the 

 Malay Peninsula, Siam, Indo-China, and the Chinese Coast (winter); 

 eastward it occurs as far as Laysan. 



Family PHALACROCORACIDAE: Cormorants 



PHALACROCORAX CARBO SINENSIS (Shaw and Noddcr) 



Pelecanus sinensis Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Misc., vol. 13, 529, 1802 (China). 



One immature male, Sriracha, September 20, 1925. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected an adult male and an adult female at 

 Lay Song Hong, Trang, August 22 and 29, 1896. 



Dr. Abbott gives the colors of the soft parts as: Iris, emerald green; 

 bill, black above and whitish or fleshy beneath; naked skin at base of 

 bUl and gular pouch, greenish black, thickly mottled with orange 

 (male), deep yellow (female); naked skin beneath eye, orange; feet 

 and claws, black. Weight of female, 4}^ pounds. 



Gyldenstolpe ^^ reports this cormorant common near the rivers and 

 swamps of central Siam and in the small lakes around Tha Law; 

 Robinson ^^ secured a male on Koh Pennan and states that he had 

 obtained specimens on the coast of Patani and saw four birds in 

 Senggora Roads on his way to Koh Samui; Gairdner ^^ records it for 

 the Ratburi and Petchaburi Districts. 



The form ranges from southern Europe to China, south to India, 

 Indo-China, Siam, and south in Peninsular Siam to the Malay States, 

 where it is rare, however. 



This is the largest of the three cormorants credited to Siam. 



PHALACROCORAX NIGER (Vieillot) 



Hydrocorax niger Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vol. 8, p. 88, 1817 (East 

 Indies, error; Bengal). 



One male and five females, Bangkok, April 11, 1924, May 22 and 24, 

 1926, October 10, 1923, and October 19, 1924; two females, Nong 

 Preng, January 29, 1927; one male and two females. Bung Borapet, 

 June 22-27, 1932, and March 22, 1933. 



Only two in the above series are adult and have begun to assume 

 the breeding plumage. They are both females and were taken at 

 Bangkok, October 10 and 19; the latter has a few white feathers on 

 top of head and sides of neck; in the former a few white filoplumes 



«« Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 50, no. 8, p. 71, 1913. 

 " Journ. Federated Malay States Mus., vol. 5, p. 143, 1915. 

 >' Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Slam, vol. 1, pp. 15, 31, 162, 1914. 



