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ON A COLLECTION OF BIRDS FROM THE PROVINCE OF 
PUKET, PENINSULAR SIAM. 
By H. C. Roprnson anp C. Bopen Kuoss. 
WITH A MAP. 
The district in which this collection was made is fairly well 
known ornithologically, but the only paper actually dealing with the 
area is that of August Miiller, ‘‘ Die Ornis der Insel Salanga”, 1882, 
pp. 1—96: Naumburg a Saale, originally published as a doctoral dis- 
sertation and apparently reprinted in the “Journal fiir Ornithologie,” 
1882. 
Large collections were made in the district by J. Darling on 
behalf of A.O. Hume, which were the*subject of scattered notices in 
‘Stray Feathers,” and which are now incorporated in the British 
Museum, while the island of Salanga was also visited by Ernst Hartert 
who has made a few remarks on its Fauna (Nov. Zool., 1X, pp. 222—226). 
In the present paper three more subspecies are diagnosed, viz :— 
Mesobucco duvauceli stuarti 
Chloropsis cyanopogon septentrionalis 
Cyanops mystacophunes aurantiifrons 
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while two species, 
Pericrocotus roseus (Vieill.), 
Pericrocotus cantonensis (Swinh.), 
are recorded for the first time from the Malay Peninsula, though the 
latter had been collected in Trang as far back as 1910. 
The collections were made by native collectors without European 
superintendence ; and details of soft parts, which men of this type can- 
not note with sufficient accuracy to be worth recording, are therefore 
lacking. 
Tho localities visited will not be found in any ordinary map and 
can only be traced in the Admiralty Chart No. 2492 and the publi- 
cations of the Siamese Survey Office, and we have therefore supplied an 
outline map on which the route of our party is marked. 
The collection was made between December 20th and February 
18th, and therefore comprises a considerable number of seasonal visitors 
which would not be found later in the year. ‘The occurrence of the 
comparatively rare Cuckoo Falcon, Baza lophotes, in large numbers is 
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