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The Ruff is almost certain to be eventually found in Lower 

 Siam : there are somewhat dotibtfnl recoi-fls fi-oin the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



81. Rhyacophilus g-lareola (Linn.). 



Trliuja (/lareola, Linn., Sy.st. Nut. i, 17G0, p. 200 (Sweden ). 

 lihi/acophilus ylareola, A , p. 462 ( Pakchiin ) ; B., p. H'.i (S:il:in;:.a 



id.); D., p. 80 (Patehing) : F., p. ].'$ (Trung) ; T., p. 14() 



(Koh L«k). 

 Totanus (jlareola, C. ii, p. 401. 



1 9 ad. Mamoh, Pakchan. 27 February, 1919. [No. 4294]. 



5 c^ 8 2. Koh Lak, S. W. Siam. 3—9 April, 1919. [Nos. 

 5008, 5334-5, 5084, 5104-7, 5130-1, 5159, 5181, 5210]. 



"Iris dark ; bill black, greenish at base ; feet sage-green or 

 greenish grey." 



Total length d, 225,215,216,220; 9, 220, — , 210, 212, 

 211, 223, 208, 223, 223. 



Wing d, 125, 117 (m.), 129, 122, 12G; 9, 128, 125, 124, 127, 

 126, 128, 121, 127, 127. 



Tail c^, 54, 48, 57, 58; 9, 53, 60, 45, 54, 53, 56, 50, 55, 60. 

 Tarsus d, 38.5, 38, 36, 35, 33.5 ; 9, 38, 34, 37.5, 39, 37, 38, 34, 36, 38. 



Bill from gape d, 31, 31, 33, 30, 31 ; 9, 34, — , 32, 3.3, .30, 

 3.3.5, 32, 33, 34 mm. 



Very common everywhere. 



82. 1 Limonites minuta minuta (Leisl.). 

 83. ( Limonites minuta ruficollis (Pall.). 



Tringa minuta, Le-sler in Bechst. Naturg. Deut.schl. >"^achtr. i, 



1912, p. 74; A., p. 461 (Mergui); C. ii, p .389 (Mergui, Tongka); 



E., p. 118 (Patani). 

 Tringa ruficollis, Palla.s, Reis. Rus.s. Keich. iii, 1766, p. 700 



(Siberia). 

 JAmonitcs ruficollis, Sh irpp, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas. xxiv, 1896, 



p. 547 (Mergui, Tongkah Id.) ; F., p 14 (Kedah). 



We are unable to disentanj^le the records relatinsf to the 

 Eastern and Western series of this Stint, viz., L. m. minuta and 

 L. m. ruflcolllsi, which are almost impossible to discriminate in 



I. Gyldenstolpo, KuiikI. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Joiiin. X. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



56, No. 2, 19ie. (first part). 



J. Robinson, .Toiun. V. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. Baker, Joum. X. H. Soc. Siam. iii, 1919. 



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



L. lipbirison and Kloss, Journ. X. H. Soc. Siam, M. I. Baker, Journ, N. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 19'20. 



iii, 3919. (third part). 



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