THE BIRDS OF BANGKOK. 73 
interesting feature of bird-life. It has, accordingly, been deemed 
advisable, at this juncture, to refrain from dealing with the subject in 
what would necessarily (owing to lack of adequate material) have been 
an incomplete manner. 
- As was the case with the Preliminary List published in the 
last number of the Journal, the classification and nomenclature of the 
birds here described are taken from the Fauna of British India—Birds, 
by Oates and Blanford, and the numbers in brackets are those of that 
work. Species described in this paper, which were not included in the 
Preliminary List, are marked with an asterisk. (*) 
The area within which the birds dealt with have been obtained, 
is that comprised by the City and its suburbs, together with the 
surrounding country within easy walking distance thereof. This 
limitation of area has been adopted with a view to rendering the paper 
of particular use to those residents of the Capital (and they are 
doubtless many) whose opportunities for observation are confined to 
Bangkok and its immediate neighbourhood. 
The following is a list of the principal books and papers to which 
references will be made, but the names of the authors only will be 
quoted, in order to avoid repetition of the titles of the works :— 
WebermbGede.:s aco, caceriaeane W. T. Blanford. The Fauna of British 
India—Birds. Vols. III and IV. 
1895 and 1898. 
Gyldenstol pe@,:.....:.<.-+«3 Count Nils Gyldenstolpe. Swedish 
Zoological Expedition to Siam. 1913. 
OBES ess occscds.oa8 dase seas Eugene W. Oates. The Fauna of 
British India—Birds. Vols. I and 
II. 1889 and 1890. 
RS OINSOM vos cs se cetens<: Herbert C. Robinson. A Hand-List 
of the Birds of the Malay Peninsula, 
south of the Isthmus of Kra. 1910. 
Robinson and Kloss...Herbert C. Robinson and C. B. Kloss. 
On Birds from the Northern Portion 
of the Malay Peninsula, including the 
Islands of Langkawi and Terutau. 
The Ibis. 1910-11. 
