THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 45 



specimen from tlie same locality is certainly edivardsL A male in 

 freshly moulted plumage from Klong Samrong, nr. Bangkok, shot in 

 November, has the mantle, inner secondaries and tail glossy black, 

 with practically no trace of oily green wash. It may be taken as 

 typical P. e. edwardsi. There are, however, too many nominal 

 " species " in the genus. 



In the Malay Peninsula tho. bird is rare and local : it is, how- 

 ever, almost certain to be found in Trang and in the vicinity of the 

 Tale Noi and Tale Sap in Patching and Singora. 



The bird of Malacca has been described and named Porphyrio 

 virldifi by Begbie — a matter hitherto overlooked (" The Malayan 

 Peninsula," 1834, p. 515). We cannot say, for lack of sufficient 

 material, whether the name must be accepted. 



podicipedidae. 



Grebes. 



44. Podicipes fluviatilis philippensis (Bonn.). 

 Cohjmbus philij^jyensis, Bonnat , Tiibl- Encycl. Meth. i, (1790), p. 58, 



pi. 46, fig 3. 

 Fodicipes philipjiensis, D., p. 80 (Patelung). 

 Podicipes ulhipennis, Williamson, Journ. Nat Hi.'it Soc. Siam, iii, 



1918, p. 42 (Central and S. E. Siam). 



3 dr, 4 9 hyem. Koh Lak, S. W. Siam, 7 April, 1919. (Nos. 

 5124-8, 5143, 5145). 



" Iris lemon ; lower mandible cream, upper mandible black, 

 tomia pale yellow, culmen black, base of bill pale green ; feet dark 

 sage green." 



Total length d, 238, 275, 240; 2, 233, 238, 243, 252; 

 wing S, 107, 101, 109; 2, 103, 102, 103, 103; tarsus 6, 34, 32, 34; 

 9, 35, 32, 32, 33; bill from gape 6, 26.5, 30, 30; c^, 26.5, 28.5, 26, 

 28 mm. 



These birds, which are all in non-breeding plumage, are not 

 typical P. /. philippensis ; two specimens (Nos. 5125-5126) show 

 an approach to P. capensis (of which P. alhip>ennis is a synonym) 



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



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



J. Robinson, Journ. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. Baker, Jouni. X. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



K. Kloss, Ibis, 1918. (second part). 



L. Robinson and Kloss, Journ. X. H. Soc. Fiam, M. I. Baker, Journ, X. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 1920. 



iii, 1919. (third part). 



VOL. V, NO. 1, 1921. 



