THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 43 



Rare or extreiiK^ly difficult to procure in our area : probably 

 not unconnnon in the threat reed beds and swauipH at the north end 

 of the Tale Sap and Tale Noi. 



41. Amaurcrnis phoenicura chine csis (Bodd.). 

 Fulica chinensis, Boddaeit, Tabl. PI. Eiil., 1783, p. 54 (Hong- 

 kong). 

 C'all/nula phoeniciira, A., p. 4GG (Banharoon) 

 Erythra j)k lenicura, B., p. 80 (Junk Seylon) ; C. ii, p. 348. 

 Amaurornis phoeniura, E., p. 120 (Jalor) ; F,, p 11 (Trang) ; G., 



p. 132 (Ratburi and Petchaburi). 

 Amaurornis phoenicura chinensis, Stresemann, Nov. Zool. xx, 1913, 

 p. 304 (Hong Kong) ; H., p. 141 (Koh Pennan) ; I., p. 148 (Hut 

 Sanuk) ; L, p. 91 (Pulau Panj.ng, (Jhirbi Bay) ; M.l, p. 37 

 (Putiyu). 



2 6. Tasan, Chumpon, Peninsular Siam. 19 — 2G March, 1919. 

 [Nos. 4814, 4807]. 



?. Hat Sanuk, nr. Koh Lak, S. W. Siam. 17 April, 1919 

 [No. 5369]. 



" Iris red ; bill sea-green, reddish above and on cere ; feet 

 yellowish brown. " 



Total length 6, 323; 335; 2, 3(^5; wing 6, 176, 168; 9, 168; 

 tail cT, 78, 77; 9, 70; tarsus J, 51, 54 ; 2, 52 ; bill from gape 6, 40, 

 40; 9, 37. 



Universally distributed over the area in suitable localities. 

 These birds are rather large, Malayan specimens being slightly 

 smaller than typical Chinese birds. 



Gallinula chloropus parvifrons Blyth. 



Gallinula parvifrons, Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, xi, 1843, 



p. 180 (nr. Calcutta). 

 Gallinula chloropus, A., p. 466 (Tavoy Estuary ). 

 Gallinula chloropus parvifrons, Claude Grant, Ibi?, 1915, p. 47; 

 - Hartert, Nov. Zool. xxiv, 1917, p 268. 



We have examined nine specimens from various parts of 

 Siam, south to Bangkok. All belong to this form, which is distin- 

 guished from the European Moorhen by its small size and by havino- 

 the frontal shield almost parallel-sided, not expanded posteriorly. 



!• Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii 1919 



56, No. 2, 1916. (first part). 



J. Uohinson, Journ. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. Bakor. Journ. X.H. Soc. Siam. iii, 1919. 



K. Kloss. Ibis. 1918. (second jwrt). 



t. Robinson and Kloss, .lourn. N, H. Soc-. Siam. M. I. Baker, Journ. N. H. .Soc. Siam, iv, 19-20. 



iii, 1919. (third part) 



VOL. V, NO. 1, 1921. 



