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One female, Nakon Sritamarat, August 30, 1924, 



Dr. W. L. Abbott writes that a large wliite pelican was observed 

 several times at Lay Song Hong, Trang, but no specimens were 

 obtained. It was probably this species. 



Gyldenstolpe " records one pair from Tha Law but observed great 

 flocks on the coast of the Gulf of Siam at the end of April and begin- 

 ning of May; later,-^ August 16, 1914, he took a male and a female at 

 Chieng Hai, northern Siam, and states that during the rainy season 

 they assemble in great numbers on the large swamps of central Siam. 

 In Peninsular Siam there seem to be few records, but this is probably 

 due to the lack of scientific collecting rather than to the scarcity of 

 the bird in suitable localities. There are a number of specimens from 

 the Malay States in the British Museum. Robinson ^^ states that 

 pelicans are now rare in the Malay States but are still common in the 

 Trang swamps, the Tale Sap in Singgora, and Tale Noi in Patelung, 

 They used to be common in Patani Bay, and they are fairly numerous 

 in Bandon. 



Delacour and Jabouille ^° report this pelican very common in suitable 

 districts in Cochinchina and Cambodia, where it breeds in great 

 numbers and forms an object of commerce; in Annam it is rare. 



It should and probably does occur in southeastern Siam. 



The range of the species extends from southern China to Burma, 

 India, Cochinchina, Siam, and southward through Peninsular Siam to 

 Java and the Philippines. 



Family SULIDAE: Boobies, Gannets 



SULA LEUCOGASTER PLOTUS (Forster) 



Pelecanus plains Forster, Descriptiones animalium . . ., Lichtenstein ed., p. 278, 

 1844 (near New Caledonia). 



Dr. W. L. Abbott collected an immature female of this form, near 

 the Aroa Islands, Straits of Malacca, November 14, 1899; and an 

 immature female near Pulo Perak, Straits of Malacca, October 31, 

 1901. 



Robinson and Kloss ^* record this booby, under the name Sula 

 sula, as numerous off Langkawi in November 1907; Williamson ^^ 

 picked up a dead specimen on July 18, 1916, on an islet near Koh 

 Rin, Inner Gulf of Siam, and later found it on an islet near Koh 

 Chuan, Inner Gulf of Siam, in May 1918.^^ Robinson and Kloss," 



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



" Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. 56, no. 2, p. 132, 1916. 



'• The birds of the Malay Peninsula, vol. 1, p. 56, 1927. 



'" Oiseaux I'lndochine Franjaise, vol. 1, p. 49, 1931. 



" Ibis, 1911, p. 19. 



« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 2, p. 63, 1916. 



« Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 3, p. 38, 1918. 



" Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 6, p. 85, 1921. 



