2 BULLETIN 98, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Standards and Nomenclature.t. All species not represented in the 
collection by specimens, but included solely on the authority of Doctor 
Abbott or Mr. Kloss are prefixed with an asterisk. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The only published notes on the birds of the Anamba Islands occur 
in the following papers: 
Kuioss, C. Bopen.—Notes on a Cruise in the Southern China Sea. 
Journal of the Straits Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, No. 41, 
January, 1904, pages 53-80. 
OBERHOLSER, Harry C.—A Monograph of the Genus Collocalia. 
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 
April (July 26), 1906, pages 177-212. 
OBERHOLSER, Harry C.—A Monograph of the Flycatcher Genera 
Hypothymis and Cyanonympha. Proceedings of the United States 
National Museum, vol. 39, February 25, 1911, pages 585-615. 
OBERHOLSER, Harry C.—A Revision of the Forms of the Edible 
Nest Swiftlet, Collocalia fuciphaga (Thunberg). Proceedings of the 
United States National Museum, vol. 42, March 6, 1912, pages 11-20. 
OBERHOLSER, Harry C.—A Synopsis of the Races of the Crested 
Tern, Thalasseus bergi (Lichtenstein). Proceedings of the United 
States National Museum, vol. 49, December 23, 1915, pages 515-526, 
pl. 66. 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. 
The Anamba Islands are situated in the southern portion of the 
South China Sea, between the Natuna Islands and the Malay Penin- 
sula. The center of the group les approximately in latitude 3° 
north and in longitude 106° east; and in an air line is about 140 
miles from the nearest point of the Malay Peninsula, 225 miles from 
Borneo, 240 miles from Sumatra, 610 miles from Java, and 400 
miles from the nearest part of the mainland of Cochin China. 
There are about 20 principal islands, and possibly 200 more islets 
and rocks, spread over a geographical area some 55 miles east and 
west and 65 miles north and south. All fall roughly into three 
groups: A southern group, which includes Pulo Repon, Baua, 
Rittan, Riabu, Piling, and White Rock; a northern group, which 
includes Pulo Siantan, Mata, Mobur, Kelong, Minjalin, Panjang, 
and Manguan; and a western group, made up of Pulo Jimaja, 
Telaga, Little Telaga, and Pulo Domar, with, as in the other groups, 
many islets and rocks. 
Nearly all the islands are high and rocky, formed chiefly of hard 
rocks and laterite, and with a fringe of coral reefs about their bases. 
There are also many coral reefs between the islands; while the 
1 Ridgway, Color Standards and Color Nomenclature, 1912 (Jan. 16, 1913). 
