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No further examples appear to have been procured in this 
country until January 1917, when Major-General E. W. Trotter, of 
the Gendarmerie, while on tour at Minburi, about 15 miles east- 
north-east of Bangkok, had ten of these birds brought to him alive, 
which had just been caught in nets among high grass. He kindly 
gave me four for my collection, and put the rest into his aviary. 
Subsequently, I obtained four more in October 1917 from the 
immediate outskirts of Bangkok, of which one was shot by Major 
C. H. Forty, of the Gendarmerie, at the Sports Club, two by Mr. J. J. 
McBeth at the “ Ditches,” east of the Wireless Station, and the fourth 
by my collector at the last mentioned place. They were all shot out of 
longish grass. 
3d ad., 26 imm., 22 ad. 
Males (adult). W. 87, 90,91 mm. Females. W. 88, 90 mm. 
Iris bright brick-red. Bill dull green, darker on culmen. 
Legs olive-green. Claws horn-colour. 
Family OEDIONEMIDA—Stone-Plovers. 
*49. Qedicnemus scolopax (S. G. Gmel.). The Stone- 
Plover. 
H. R. H. the Prince of Chumpon obtained a specimen ( W. 215 
mm.) at Sena Yai, Krung Kao, Central Siam, in February 1916, while 
I procured another in the fields between Klong Toi, Bangkok, and the 
Chao Phya river, in July 1918. The prrticulars of the latter are as 
follows :— 
12. T.L. 385 mm. W. 223. 
Iris brownish yellow. Terminal half of bill blackish; basal half 
yellow above, greenish. yellow below, with culmen and commissure 
blackish. Eyelids yellow. Legs pale greenish yellow. Claws black. 
Family CHAR ADRITDA—Plovers, Sandpipers, ete. 
*50. Microsarcops cinereus (Blyth). The Grey-headed 
Lapwing. 
Mr. K. G. Gairdner obtained a specimen at Raheng, in the 
northern part of Central Siam, in J anuary 1916. 
(Not uncommon, and usually found singly, or in pairs or threes, 
in company with Hoplopterus ventralis, the Spur-winged Plover. 
K. G. G.) 
VOL. III, NO. J; 1918. 
