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In the second (and smaller) bird, the terminal half of the 
bill was blackish, the basal half dusky purplish (lighter on the lower 
mandible ), and the claws blackish. 
53. Terekia cinerea ( Giildenst.). Zhe Avocet Sand- 
piper. 
Ogilvie-Grant ( Fase. Malay., Zool. iii (1905), p. 118), records 
a specimen from Kampong Budi, Patani, Peninsular Siam, in Octo- 
ber 1901. The species is also included by Robinson and Kloss 
in their prper ( Ibis, 1911, p. 13 ) on birds obtained in Trang, on the 
Langkawi Islands, etc., but without specifying any particular locality. 
They merely observe that it is common along the coast in the winter 
months. The fact is, therefore, worth noting that H. R. H. the 
Prince of Chumpon shot a specimen (¢, W. 130 mm.) on the mud- 
flats at the mouth of the Chao Phya river, at the head of the Gulf of 
Siam, in April 1917. 
*54. Totanus fuscus (Linn.). The Spotted Redshank. 
H. R. H. the Prince of Chumpon obtained a specimen of this 
bird (d, W. 165 mm.) near Chainat, Central Siam, in February 
1917, and a second one ( unsexed, W. 163 mm.) at the mouth of the 
Chao Phya river, in April 1917, I cannot trace any previous records 
from this country. 
“55. Tringa crassirostris(Temm.). The Eastern Knot. 
In February 1918 I found this bird common at Lat Yai, near 
Meklong, Central Siam. In this locality there is an extensive area of 
bire, semi-swampy ground, with a hard, rather sandy surface, and in 
one place the water forms a kind of shallow lagoon, a few inches deep, 
shelving very gradually from the margin to the centre. The place is 
within a very few miles of the sea, and not far off are the fields where 
salt is collected by the evaporation of sea-water. It was there that a 
considerable number of Tringa crassirostris were found, standing in 
the shallow water, and prepared, on one’s too near approach, to rise 
in a flock and wheel off to a distant part of the miniature lake, 
Stalking about in the deeper portions were a number of Himantopus 
candidus (the Black-winged Stilt), with the usual sandpipers on 
the margin of tiie piece of water. 
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