122 MESSRS. ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



6. Tung Prau, Takuatung, W. Peninsular Siam, 12 February 

 1919 (No. 3956). 



" Iris dark ; bill and feet blood red ". 



This Kino-fisher is never found far from salt water, but is 

 fairly common along the coasts and islands of W. Peninsular Siam 

 and as far south as the Langkawi group : we are not aware that it 

 has been met with on the east coast of the Peninsula. 



185. Ramphalcyon capensis burmanica (Sharpe). 



Pelargopsis hurmanica, Shaipe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 67 (Tuunghoo, 



Burma) ; A., p. 7.3 ( Tavoy to Bankasoou ) ; C. ii, p. 78 ; 



(Tenasseiiiu and .southwards). 

 Pelargopsis fraseri, E., p. Ill (Pattani?). 

 Ramphalcyon cajjensis burmanica, Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mas. XXXV, 1909, p. 670. 

 Pelargopsis malaccensis, H., p. 145 (Koh Pennau) ; B., p. 46 (Junk 



Seylon ? ). 

 Pelargopsis capensis malaccensis, I., p. 114 (Kob Lak). 

 Pelargopsis gurial burmanica, Williamson, Journ. N. H. S. Siam, 



ii, 1917, p. 334 (Bangkok ; S. W. Siam). 

 Pelargopsis javana malaccensis, Parrot, Yerh. Orn. Ges. Bayemi, 8, 



1908, p. 112 (Petchaburi). 



cT. Namclmk, Pakchan, Peninsular Siam, 25 February 1919 

 (No. 4234). 



2 6. Koh Lak, S. W. Siam. 3 April 1919 (Nos. 4998-9). 



9. Hat Sanuk, S. W. Siam, 15 April 1919 (No. 5317). 



6. Kandhuli, Chaiya, Peninsular Siam, 13 September 

 1919 (E. Seimund). 



" Iris dark, eyelid crimson ; bill blood red, darker at tip ; feet 

 coral, claws dark horn." 



Total length 6, 372, 365, 373 ; 2, 373 ; wing d, 141, 152, 148 ; 

 9, 152; tail, d 100, 108,112; 9, 113; tarsus 6, 16, 18.5, 18; 9,16; 

 bill from gape 6, 93, 94, 94; 9, 94 mm. 



All this series have a dull clay-coloured cap, washed with 

 green but quite unstreaked. Beneath, the colour is somewhat rich 

 ochraceous rufous, deei)er in tint than specimens of the Peninsula 



A. Hume & Davison, Stray Feathers, vi, 1878. E- < >. Grant, Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds), 1906. 



B. Miillor, Die Ornis der Insel Salanga, 188'2. F. Robinson and Kloss, Ibis, 1910-11. 



C. Oatcs, Birds Brit. Burmah, Vols, i iv: ii, 1883. C Gairdner, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, i, 1915. 



D. Bouhotc, r. Z. S. 1901, Vol. i. M. Kobinson, Journ. F. M, S. Museums, v, 1915. 



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