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of Siani, on 18th July 1916. as nieiitioned above, one of our party 

 picked up a sun-dried specimen of this bird on the shinglj' beach 

 at the foot of tlie rocks. It was in an excellent state of preserva- 

 tion, and could not have been dead many weeks. 



In connection with this record, it is necessary to remark that 

 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss iiave reported (Ibis, 1911, p. 19), that 

 tiiey found the Booby ■' numerous off Langkawi in November 1907. " 

 The Langkawi islands, situated off the western coast of the Mala}' 

 Peninsula, passed under the protection of Great Britain in 1909, to- 

 gether with the adjacent mainland State of Kedah, but they were 

 Siamese territory at the time above mentioned. The jn-esent record 

 is, however, a new one, so far as existing Siamese territory is con- 

 cerned^ and interest is added to it by reason of the considerable exten- 

 sion of range since the Langkawi occurrence was noted. 



22. Spatula clvpeata. The Shoveller. 



Mr. A. H. Duke shot a drake in non-breeding-plumage 

 (i. e., with the head and upper neck brown instead of glo.-^sy green) on 

 22nd January 1916 at Klong Luang Peng, about 30 miles east of 

 Bangkok, Central Siam. 



This duck is probably rare in Siam. Its distribution is given 

 by Blanford (Faun. Brit. Ind.. Birds, IV (1898), p. 453) as "through- 

 out the greater part of the Northern Hemisphere, between lat. 10° and 

 lat. 68° N., breeding in the north temperate zone. A winter visitor 

 to India, Ceylon and Northern Burma." lie adils that " it 

 is found in Assam, Manipur and the Upper Irrawaddj- Valley above 

 Myingyan ; but not, so far as is hitherto known, in Pegu or Tenas- 

 serim." 



The Southernmost limit above given (10° N. lat.) is approxi- 

 matel}' that of the Isthmus of Kra, but a specimen of the Shoveller is 

 recorded (Robinson, Hand-list Birds Mai. Peninsula (1910), p. 5), as 

 having been shot near Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States (about 

 7° further south) in 1898. This was doubtless a straggler, as Mr. 

 Robinson informs me that no further specimens have been obtained 

 in Malayan limit.^. 



l^angkok is in about the latitude of Central Tenasserim, whili^ 

 Pegu lies roughly between the same jiarallels as Northern Siam. It 

 thus appears that the greater part of this country, though within the 



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