ON REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS FROM 
THE COAST AND ISLANDS OF 
SOUTH-EAST SIAM. 
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By MALCOLM SMITH, M.R.C.S., LR.C.P., AND C. BODENS KLOSS, F.Z.S. 
[During December and January, 1914-5, I spent six weeks on 
the east side of the Gulf collecting vertebrates of all kinds. I was 
accompanied by three Dyak assistants and, at my suggestion, Dr. 
Smith sent his reptile-collector with my party. 
On Koh! Chang and Koh Kut, at each of which. we spent 
over a week, we obtained a fair number of reptiles, but on several of 
the smaller islands between these, on which we passed only a night or 
two, we were entirely unsuccessful. We had of course better fortune 
on the mainland, between Ok Yam at the southern extremity of the 
Franco-Siamese boundary, and Lem Ngop opposite Koh Chang, partly 
because at all the places where we camped there were villages where, 
encouraged by small presents, the inhabitants brought us such speci- 
mens of reptiles and batrachians as were easily found in the vicinity, 
and partly because the fauna was naturally much richer. 
There is but little to remark about many of the species ob- 
tained, but an endeavour has been made to give as full a set of local 
references as the literature available will permit; until lately no serious 
study of the reptiles of Siam, as a zoo-geographical district, has been 
undertaken, and so it has remained for a beginning to be made in the 
compilation of a synonomy. The well known works of Mr. Boulenger, 
namely, the British Musewm Catalogues and the Kaunas of India and 
the Malay Peninsula with the synonomy in those volumes have not 
been quoted, but all other references of any value that we have been 
able to gather, have been inserted. The collection consisted of about 
250 specimens, and we have given the first set to the British Museum 
of Natural History; to Mr. G. A. Boulenger, of that institution, we are 
much indebted for putting us right on two or three points of identifi- 
cation, and confirming the correctness of the whole. 
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