Coast and Islands of South-eastern Siam. 731 



c. 1 ? iinm. Koh Melisi, East I., S.E. Siam. 13 Dec, 

 1914. 



" Male. Iris dark ; bill, black ; feet coral-red. Female. 

 Iris dark; bill sooty, gape and base of lower mandible red- 

 brown ; feet red, washed with brown." — C. B. K. 



Pelargopsis gurial burmanica. 



Pelargopsis burmanica Sharpe ; Sharpe, Cat. xvii. 1892, 

 p. 104 ; Gyldenstolpe, p. 54. 



Ramphalcyun capensis burmanica Oberholser, Proc. U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. XXXV. 1911, p. 670. 



a. S • Klong Yai, S.E. Siam. 6 Jan., 1915 



b,c. S "i ■ Koh Chang I., S.E. Siam. 4-6 Dec, 1914. 



"Iris dark, edge of eyelids red; bill blood-red, tip and 

 part of culmeu brownish black; feet coral-red, claws horn. 



" Lives in the mangroves fringing the coast and river- 

 estuaries. A wary bird with a loud alarm-note." — C. 15. K. 



These specimens, none of which is very old, as is shown 

 by the dark edgings to the feathers of the breast, appear to 

 belong to this race, which is separated from the Malayan form 

 by its slightly larger size and by the greenish-blue tint of 

 the wings and back, and by the paler clay-coloured pileum 

 slightly washed with a greenish suffusion. The colour of 

 the under surface does not differ. Specimens from Koh 

 Pennan, off Bandon, are intermediate between this race and 

 P. y. malaccensis, but are nearer the latter. 



Halcyon chloris. 



Halcyon chloris (Bodd.) ; Sharpe, Cat. xvii. 1892, p. 273, 

 pi. vii. tig. 3. 



Halcyon chloris, subsp. armstrongi Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 277, 

 pi. vii. fig. 1. 



Halcyon humii Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 281, pi. viii. 



a,h. 1 c? , 1 ? . Klong Yai, S.E. Siam. 4-6 Jan., 1915. 



"■ Iris dark ; basal two-thirds of lower mandible fleshy 

 white; feet pale blackish purple or blackish olive.'' — C. B. K. 



The larger the series of these blue and white Kingfishers 



