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Patani, in the extreme southern portion of what is now known as 

 Peninsular Siani. Since then tliere appear to liave been no further 

 recorils from tliis country, with tlie exception of tlie entry in my 

 Preliminaiy List of Bangkoiv Bircis ( Vol. I, No. 1, p 47 of tliis 

 Jouni'tl, 1914), despite the not inconsiderable collections made by 

 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss in Trang, l^eninsular Siam'iby Count 

 Gyldenstolpe, UKiildy in Central, Eastern and Northern Siam'-- by Mr. 

 H. C. Robinson in Bandon, Koh Sainui and Koh Pemian, Peninsular 

 Siam3. and again by Mr. C. Boden Kloss in Southern-eastern Siani-'. 

 Mention ought also, perhaps, to be made here of the fact that Stuart- 

 Balver-* remarks that the Barred Ground-Dove is " found in Siani, but 

 ia apparentl}' rare there, and was never met with by Count Gylden- 

 stolpe during his expedition in 1911-12." 



In view of the above facts, it m-iy be worth while recording 

 that this species is fairly coinnion in Bangkok, and is often to be seen 

 in our gardens, walking (juietl}' about on the ground, singly or in 

 pairs, or perched on a tree. Its ordinary note is a Ka-karu Ini-hu-kii-kii, 

 alwa)'s uttered from a parch, so far as I h ive observed, and it is fre- 

 quently caught ill a cage-tr.ip containing a decoy bird, which attracts 

 the wild ones by its cill. Hundreds of this gentle little Djve are also 

 to be seen in the bird-shops of Bangkok (imported from Singapore), 

 and there appears to be little doubt that, although it is now well- 

 established here and breeds freely ( I have taken its eggs in Februarj'' 

 and.Iune), it is an introduced species, so far as this part of Siam 

 ia concerned. The fact of the bird being known to the Siamese as 



WD 1111 HQl {Aoli-khao-Ch'haira), { e , the Javanese Dove, also appears 



to confirm the conjection as to its foreign origin, Patani and Puket 

 are, of course, well within its range, as they are both south of 

 the Isthmus of Kr.i (10' 30." N. Lat.^, but if the bird extends into 

 tile south of Tenasserim, it ought also to be found in the nothern 

 portion of Peninsular Siam, as far as Chumpon, whicii is in the same 

 latitude as Kra. It is rather surprising, therefore, that Messrs. 

 Robinson and Kloss did not meet with it either in Trang or in Bandon, 

 which are much further south. 



W. J. F. Williamson. 



Bangkok, 24th June 19 IG. 



1. Il)is, 1910, pp. 559-075, and 1911, pp. 10-80. 



2. Iviiiigl. Svt'iiska Vetciiskap.sakaJi'Uiiens HaiuUiiigar. Dan J 50, 

 No. 8, 19! S. 



S Journ IVd. Malay States Mus., Vol. V., No. ?, (1915), j.p. 83-110 

 and 139-150. 



4. Indian pigeons and Doves, 1913 p. 254. 



5. Il)is, 1915, pp. 718-761. 

 VOI<. II, JU.NK yjiti. 



