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charges of buckshot and No. 8 shot at short range, and the collector 

 had to discard his gun and defend himself with his knife. After being 

 chased around a tree for some time, the Dyak was finally able to get 

 in a knife thrust, and the boar left, taking the knife with him." 



Shortly after this. Doctor Smith sent his collector to a wild and 

 isolated mountain region east of Bandon. On September 16 he writes 

 that, ". . . . a small collection is now in hand from a densely-wooded 

 mountainous region southeast of Bandon in the peninsula. The place 

 where the collecting was done is 17 miles inland, and the locality may 

 be designated Sichol or Seechol (pronounced Seechon). . . . 



" I am going this week to the .... mountainous region close to 

 the Tenasserim border. Very little zoological collecting has been done 



there During the coming winter, I am planning to make 



another trip to the mountains in northern Siam — this time north of 

 Chiengmai." 



It is rather premature to attemjjt any generalizations, as the ex- 

 tensive Siamese material now available for study has not yet been ade- 

 quately investigated. The avifauna of Siam may, however, now be 

 definitely said to be more closely related to that of India on the west, 

 rather than to that of Indo China and the Malay States on the east, 

 although, as might be expected from the intermediate geographic 

 position of Siam, it shows many features of both. 



The last lot of birds received from Dr. Smith contains several 

 species previously unrecorded from Siam and a numl)er of others new 

 to the national collections, the most striking of which are a large 

 ground cuckoo, Carpococcyx rcnauldi and a large horned owl with a 

 powerful, heavy ])ill, Hidiita iiipalciisis. 



