718 Mr. H. C. Robinson on Birds collected on the 



XXXVII.— 0/z Birds collected hy Mr. C. Boden Kloss, 

 F.R.G.S., M.B.O.U., on the Coast and Islands of South- 

 eastern Siam. By H. C. Robinson, M.B.O.U., C.M.Z.S. 

 With Field-Notes by the Collector. 



The collection of birds made by Mr. Kloss on the coast 

 of south-eastern Siam, bordering the French possession of 

 Cambodia, and on the adjacent islands appears worthy of 

 record in detail, on account of the poverty of the literature 

 on, and specimens from, this region. 



With the exception of the series collected by the French 

 traveller Mouhot in much the same area as that covered by 

 Mr. Kloss, I am aware of no specimens in English Museums. 

 Mouhot's birds, moreover, were never listed, though the 

 reptiles and mammals secured by him formed the subject of 

 reports by Drs. Gray and Griinther in the ' Proceedings of 

 the Zoological Society of London,' while one or two of his 

 birds were cursorily described by the Marquis of Tweeddale. 



Owing to the fact that the collection of birds was only 

 a secondary object of Mr. Kloss's expedition, the series 

 obtained is not very large either in numbers of specimens 

 or in species ; but, nevertheless, several specimens of consid- 

 erable interest as bearing on zoogeographical problems were 

 secured. Amongst these may be mentioned Zoothera 

 marginata, Anthocincla phayrii, and Myiuphoneus eugenii, 

 species characteristic of the evergreen iorests of the Salwin 

 and Tenasserim, which are unknown in the alluvial plain of 

 Siam proper, but which have, neverthless, circled the head- 

 waters of the Menam and reappeared on its eastern border. 

 Myiophoneus klossii and Pijrotrogon erythrocephalus tdossii 

 are both distinct and interesting new forms, while Setaria 

 rvfifrons adds another to the small group of species known 

 from Siam, Java, and occasionally Borneo, but unrepresented 

 in the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. 



Cyornis palUdipes hainana is an unexpected addition to the 

 fauna, while it is surprising to find that the local Dial Bird 

 belongs to the Malayan race, Copsychus saularis musicus 



