72 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES, 



" Head and upper half of neck, nakerl, grey, but black in the 

 folds ; ej'e crimson ; be;ik horn, lialf legs, tar?i and toes crimson. Sex 

 unceitain, but believed to be a male. 



" I think there is probably a seasonal or sexual difference in 

 the colouration of the bare head, for I fiud that in 1910 I sent the 

 following descri])tion of an Ibis to the British Museum, which identifi- 

 ed the particulars as agreeing with this species. 



" ' Observed at Sarahett on the Petchaburi river in April 1910 

 at about .50 yards distance, an Ibis, genei'a! colour dark brown, back of 

 head blue and probablj' naked. Beak probablj' 8 inches, or same as 

 head and neck. Was the size of a small pea-hen. and had tlie same 

 hump back. Has a quicker, more feverish walk and flight than most 

 waders or swamp birds. Only one seen, and frequenting the same 

 ground as Pond Herons and White Necked Storks. ' I think that 

 since I was near enough to get the length of the beak correct, probably 

 the colour of the back of the he.ad was also correct. 



" The photo depicts the bird standing in a wide s]\ace, but as 

 previousl}'' mentioned in this Journal (Vol. I., p. 39 ) the species 

 haunts small swampj' glades surrouiuled by tree jungle, and in 1913 

 I put up a pair from a grassy bank beside a small stream in 'Pa Teng 

 Rang' (Lao, 'Pa paa'), or jungle mostly of a species of Shorea near Ban 

 Tup Takoh, I^atburi." 



W. J. P. Williamson. 

 Bangkok, May 1916. 



No. V. Occurrence of the Barred Ground-Dove ( Geopelia 



striata) in Siam. 



\n Yo\. YV oi t\\Q Fauna of British India, Bm?,<t, which ajipear- 

 ed in 1898, this Dove is said (p. 52) to be found in the Alalay 

 Peninsula aiul Archipelago to the Philippines and Celebes, and to 

 range into the extreme south of Tenasserim, but no mention is made 

 of its occurrence in Siam. This, at first sight, is somewliat sti'ange, 

 as there are five skins of the bird in the British Museum, from Siam, 

 which I have lately had the opportuTiity of examining, and all of tlieni 

 are of verj' old date. Tliree were collected in 1879 by Davison in 

 Tongkah, i. e., i^uket, the fourth bj' Darling in the same year ah 

 Ta-rua (also in Puket), wliile the fifth is from tiie Gould collection and 

 is lalielled " Siam (Sciiondjurgh) " without an)' date. With the ex- 

 ception of the last specimen, however, which luaj' liave been overlook- 

 ed it is probable that tiie localities wiiere the others were obtained 

 were not recognised as Siamese. 



On the other hand, Ogilvie-Grant in his Report on the 

 Birds collected I)}' Messrs. Annandale and Robinson in Perak 

 and the Siamese Malay States ' judilished in 1905, records two 

 specimens of the Barred Ground-Dove from the Province of 



1. (Fasc. Malay., HI, p. 121). 



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