NEW OR NOTEWORTHY BIRD-RECORDS FROM SIAM. 39 
I came across four or five Brown Gannets, on the same rocky islet as 
that on which the Noddies were procured, and shot a couple. One, 
however, drifted away on a strong tide, and was lost to view before 
the boat from which I had landed ( which was at the other end of the 
islet ), could be brought round. The specimen I obtained was a fine 
adult bird, in full plumage. 
Family PHALACROCORAC1DA/— Cormorants. 
*63. Phalacrocorax fuscicollis Steph. Zhe Indian Shag. 
2d, 32 ad., 3d, 12 imm. Klong Pho Thao, off Klong Sam- 
rong, 24 miles south-east of Bangkok, Central Siam, (?) August and 
September 1916. 
Males (ad.). W. 260, 262 mm. 
Females (ad.). W. 255, 266, 267 mm. 
These birds were procured by my collector, who reported them 
az very common. ‘The locality in which they were obtained is that 
described in connection with Aquila maculata, the Large Spotted Eagle 
(antea, p. 27). The two adult males and one of the adult females 
have the pure white tuft of feathers on each side of the neck, behind the 
ear-coverts, which is assumed in the breeding season. The monthis in 
which they were procured, as mentioned above, are approximate only. 
I was away from Siam from August to December 1916, and the 
collector, who is illiterate, informed me that he had shot the birds 
during the first two months or so of my absence. 
I have never come across this bird myself. When I visited the 
above locality, in May 1918, I only saw specimens of P. javanicus, the 
Little Cormorant. 
Family CICONIDA—NStorks. 
64. Anastomus oscitans (Bodd.). Zhe Open-bill. 
I came across a large number of these birds feeding in the 
semi-swampy, grassy fields at a place called Prom-den, on the railway 
between Bangkok and Tachin, in March 1917. They were rather wild, 
but I succeeded in obtaining a couple. Asa result of the firing, the 
birds (which were scattered over a wide area, in small parties ) 
collected together in a large flock of 60 to 80 individuals, and 
wheeled about with outstretched wings, high in the air, looking very 
much like vultures. 
VOL. III, NO. I, 1918. 
