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Niitiiral llistorv Sociotv ol* Siam 



N'ulume II. HAXCK'OK. XunilxT o. 



THE BIRDS OF BANGKOK. 



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Since tlie last instaliiient ot tiii.s I'aper ajipeaivd, two importaufc 

 cuiitiibutious to the ornitholoLry of .Siain have been published, ri:i., 

 those of Mr. H. G. Uobiiisoii, M.H.o.l'., c.M./.S., '" On Hials collected by 

 Jlr. C. Hodea Klo.5<, i-.K,(;.s.. m.h.u.U.. on the Coast and Islands of 

 Soutli-I'vistern Siam.'' whi'jh ajjpeared in the lids for October 1915, 

 |)]). 718-701, and Count Nils Gyldenstolpe's "Zoological Results of the 

 ■Swedish /ioological Expeditions to Siam, 1911-12 and 1911-lo, Part IV, 

 Birds 11." i)ul)lished in the Ku/fjl. S>'eiiska Vetensl'apsakadeiaicas Iland- 

 liniiar. Band u6. No. 2, lUlG. The former records 100 species obtained 

 during a short expedition in which, as explained bj' the author and the 

 collector in the introduction to the Pajier, the collection of birds was 

 oidy a secondary object — the principal purpose ot .Mr. Kloss' visit being 

 the investigation of the island races of nuunnials. Nevertheless, some 

 interesting specimens were procured. The latter I'aper deals with the 

 353 species obtained or obsei^ved during Count Gyklenstolpe's two 

 lengthy visits to Siam, and is the most important account of any 

 collection of Siamese birds which has yet been publisheil. 



In the introductory remarks to the first part of the [iresent 

 I'aper it was stated that tlie classification and nomenclature of the 

 specie.3 to be described would be those adopted in the Faana of Brilish 

 India — Birds, by Oates and Blanford, and that the numbers in brackets, 

 preceding the names of the birds, would be those given in that work. 



