THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM- 57 



" Iris yellow-bnnvii ; bill black, yellowish green at base ; tarsi 

 pale wax-yellow, toes more greyish slate." 



Total length 532 ; wing 272; tail 128; tarsus 88 ; bill from 

 gape 85 mm. 



This Stone-Plover has not been recorded previously from 

 Siam. It has been seen or obtained on several occasions in the 

 Mergui Archipelago, of which De Lisle Id, is practically one. The 

 present bird was one of a pair feeding on the edge of a reef at low 

 tide. 



This form is stated to difier from the typical Australian race 

 only in its slightly shorter bill. No large series appear to have been 

 examined. 



redicnemus oedicnemus indicus (Salvad.). 



Oedicnemus indicus, Salvad., Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat. viii, 1866, p. 



380 (Himalayas). 

 Oedicnemus scolopax, C. ii, p. 356 ; Williamson, Journ. Nat. Hist. 



Soc. Siam, iii, ID 18, p. 33 (near Bangkok). 



The Indian Stone-Curlew will not improbably be found on 

 dry plains in S. W. and Peninsular Sian). It can be separated from 

 the preceding by its relatively smaller and shorter bill and by its 

 more streaked and variegated plumage. 



58. Metopidius indicus (Lath.), 



Varra indica, Latham, Ind. Oin. ii, 1790, p. 765 (India). 

 Metopidius indicus, G., p. 152 (Ratburi and Petchaburi). 



c?, 9. Koh Lak, S. W. Siam. 7 April, 1919. (Nos. 5142, 

 5144). 



"Iris dark; bill yellow, base of upper mandible, from 

 nostrils, and shield dull olive-green ; feet pale red-green, tibia 

 more yellowish ", 



Total leugth 6, 270; 9. 290; wing 6, 162; 9, 173; tail 6, 

 43; 9, 43; tarsus cJ, 70; 9, 74; bill from gape cJ, 32; 9, .37 mm. 



These birds do not 9.ppear to be very young — the feathers of 

 the upper surface having no sandy margins — but the under surface is 



I. Gyldcnstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam. iii, 1919. 



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



J. K«1)in!«>n. .lourn. V. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. Bakor, Journ. X. H. S»ic. Siam, iii, 1919. 



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



U. llobinson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Sinm, M. I. Baker. Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 19iO. 



iii, 1919. (third part). 



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