Coast and Islands of South-eastern Siam. 719 



(Raffles), and not to the typical Indian form, which is the 

 one met with in Siam proper. 



I have reduced the synonymy to the narrowest limits 

 possible, in most cases merely giving the reference to the 

 ' British Museum Catalogue ' (quoted as Cat.) ; to Count 

 Nils Gyldenstolpe^s paper, " Birds collected by the Swedish 

 Zoological Expedition to Siam, 1911-1912," published in the 

 Kongl. Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, Band 

 50, No. 8, 1913 (quoted as Gyldeustolpe) ; and to Stuart 

 Baker's work on ' Indian Pigeons and Doves,' 1913 (quoted 

 as Stuart Baker). The classification and nomenclature are 

 those of Sharpe's Hand-list, unless otherwise stated. 



Note on the localities visited, by Mr. Boden Kloss. 



Towards the end of 1914 I spent a coui)le of months' 

 vacation-leave in making a collection of vertebrates in 

 Siam. 



After a few days in Bangkok T proceeded by steamer with 

 three Dyak collectors to Chantabun, and there, hiring a 

 native sailing-boat, passed six weeks in cruising and camping 

 on the coast and islands to the south-east, getting in alto- 

 gether about 33 working days ashore. 



Island races of mammals were the principal object of the 

 excursion, as the bird population of the smaller islands, on 

 which a good deal of the time was passed, was, as usual in 

 similar situations, of the poorest. The ornithological results 

 are therefore not as complete as they might have been, had 

 attention been paid to birds primarily, but they serve to show 

 that our knowledge of the avifauna of this part of Indo- 

 China is, as pointed out by Mr. Robinson, who has kindly 

 taken the account of the birds off my hands, by no means 

 final. The mainland specimens were the result often days' 

 collecting at four stations along a fifty-mile strip of coast, 

 each of the camps being situated near a village surrounded 

 by clearings with forest near at hand, so that the scrub and 

 the jungle fauna are both represented. 



Koh Chang, an island on which I camped for eigiit days, 



