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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
No. I.—Notes on two Kingfishers. 
The Eastern Pied Kingfisher. Ceryle rudis leucomelanura. 
Supplementing Mr. Williamson’s remarks (Vol. II, p. 330 of this 
Journal) on the distribution of this bird, I can vouch for its presence 
in fair numbers on the Petchaburi river in N. lat. 13°, some fifty miles 
south of Bangkok. On the three rivers best known to me, the Petcha- 
buri, the Meklong and the Me Ping, 1 have found the distribution of this 
bird to be governed by the composition of the banks, dry earthen banks 
being sometimes riddled with nest holes. In the rapids, where the 
banks are of rock or shale, it is usually absent. 
I omitted to get any specimens north of Raheng, but above that 
point the birds seem bigger and with more pronounced crests. 
The Indian Three-toed Kingfisher. Ceya triductyla. 
Mr. Williamson (op. cit., p. 333) records only four specimens of 
tridactyla as having been obtained in Siam. None of these were 
obtained in heavy jungle, but since 50 °/, of them came to a bad end, 
it would seem that they were rather out of their element in the hot 
sunny plains. In April 1915, at Sai Yoke in western Siam, I had the 
luck to observe a pair of these diminutive birds, and obtained one, the 
female. This was in dense jungle at an elevation of 1500 feet, and the 
pair were fishing in the héad of a tiny stream, at no place deeper than 
an inch or so. They flew up and down to the water, perching and 
jerking the head in the usual Kingfisher way. 
Kk. G. Gairdner. 
January, 1919. 
No. II.—QOccurrence of the Burmese Barred-back Pheasant 
(Phasianus humiae burmanicus) near Chiengmai, N. Siam. 
Stuart Baker states (Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., Vol. XXV, 
No. 3, p. 357) that the eastern limit of P. h. burmanicus is not 
certainly known beyond the Salwin river. 
On 81st March, 1919, I shot an adult male at an elevation of 
4350 feet on Doi Sutep, this mountain being situated some five miles 
west of Chiengmai, Northern Siam, and about 100 miles east of the 
Salwin. . 
The bird was seen feeding in the evening, in fairly open oak or 
pine jungle with a sparse undergrowth of coarse grass. 
Measurements: “Head and body 370; tail 495; bill 34; wing 
221; tarsus 75; spurs 22 mm. 
The colours of the soft parts were: —Iris, chestnut brown, Bull, 
greenish plumbeous. Legs, bluish plumbeous. 
Ix. G. GAIRDNER. 
June, 1919. 
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