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Eight or more years after Dr. Abbott's visits to Trang, parties from 

 the Museum of the Federated Malay States visited the region and the 

 Islands of Langkawi and Terutau, and the collections were worked up 

 by Robinson and Kloss.^^ Tliis was the beginning of a long period of 

 activity by one or the other of these men, who worked together in 

 exploring Peninsular, eastern, and southeastern Siam. They have 

 embodied the results of their labors in Peninsular and southwestern 

 Siam in a joint paper.'^ 



In the meanwhile, the Natural History Society of Siam had been 

 formed at Bangkok in 1913, and it began the pubHcation of its Journal 

 the following year. Tliis society was composed of a number of 

 enthusiastic members who soon began to pubHsh articles on birds in 

 the Journal. 



Count Nils Gyldenstolpe had visited eastern and northern Siam in 

 1911 and published the first extensive paper on the birds of this 

 region*^; later he paid a second visit to the country, when besides 

 collecting in northern Siam he spent some time at Koh Lak^^; later 

 he compiled a complete hst of the birds of Siam known at that tiine.^* 



R. M. de Schauensee has made three journeys to Siam and published 

 the results of his trips. ^^ His collections were presented to the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 



H. G. Deignan ^'' has compiled a list of the birds personally taken 

 or reported by others from the Chiengmai region, recording 337 

 forms; this has had additions made to it by the collections of C. J. 

 Aagaard ^^ and by de Schauensee on liis third expedition cited above. 

 Later Mr. Deignan '^ returned to Cliiengmai and published a revised 

 list, bringing the number of birds recorded from there to 410. 



Herbert C. Robinson projected a work upon the birds of the Malay 

 Peninsula to be completed in five volumes, but unfortunately he died 

 after only two of the volumes had been completed,^" but the remaining 

 volumes are being written by F. N. Chasen. 



E. C. Stuart Baker's volumes on the birds of British India ^* contain 

 descriptions of the majority of the northern Siamese forms. 



For a long while the avifauna of French In do-China was little known, 

 but this defect has been largely remedied by the explorations of Jean 

 Delacour, Pierre Jabouille, and others m recent years and by the 



" Ibis, 1910, pp. 659-675. pi. 10, map; 1911, pp. 10-80, pi. 1. 

 " Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, vol. 5, pp. 1-397, 1921-1924. 

 " Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. ITandl., vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 3-76, 1 col. pi., 1913. 

 «♦ Kungl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl., vol. £6, no. 2, pp. 1-lGO. 1916. 

 i» Ibis, 1920, pp. 44fr4y6, 569-607, 735-780. 



" Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, pp. 553, 580, 1928; vol. 81, pp. 523-588, 1930; vol. 86, pp. 163- 

 280, 1934. 

 " Journ. Siam Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, pp. 131-176, 1931. 

 '• Chasen and Kloss, Journ. Siara Soc. Nat. Hist. Suppl., vol. 8, pp. 232-248, 1932. 

 » Ibid., vol. 10, pp. 71-129, 1936. 



M The birds of the Malay Peninsula, vol. 1, 7-1-329 pp., 1927; vol. 2, xxii+310 pp., 1928. 

 •• The fauna of British India, ed. 2, Birds. 7 vols., 1922-1930. 



