89 



In Baudou the species was very common but excessively wary and 

 hard to obtain. It was seen either singly or in small numbers on the 

 rice fields but collected in large tiocks towards evening and roosted on 

 lofty trees in company with Dissura episcopuf< and G raptocejj/udus 

 davisoni. In the south of the Peninsula it is replaced by Ps. lacteus, 

 which, however, appears to be almost exclusively a marine species. 



IBIDID^. 



S. IBIS MELANOCEPHALA. 



Ibis melanocephala (Lath.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvi., 

 p. 8 (1898). 



Seimund obtained one s^jecimen out of a large flock feeding on the 

 mud-fiats at the movith of the Bandou river. The species is by no 

 means scarce in the Malay Peninsula but is always very wary and 

 difficult to obtain. 



U. GRAPTOCEPHALUS DAVISONI. 



Graptocephalus davisoni (Hume) ; Sharpe, tom. cit., p. 14 (1898) ; 

 Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 17. 



One male was shot out of a flock roosting on a very lofty tree 

 on the banks of the Bandon river. 



ARDEID^." 

 10. HERODIAS ALBA. 



Herodias alba (Linn.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvi., p. 90 

 (1898). 



Seimund shot a male from out of a large flock at Bandon 

 on 4th June. The bird is moulting into breeding plumage and the 

 ornamental train is beginning to appear but the feet are dull black 

 and the bill uniform chrome yellow as in the winter plumage. Like 

 other specimens from the Malay Peninsula the size is very small, the 

 dimensions being, wing 12.1, culmen, 4.1 and tarsus, 5.6 inches. 



ANATID^. 



11. ASARCORNIS LEUCOPTERA. 



Asarcornis seutidata (part.) Salvad., Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvii., 

 p. 60 (1895). 



Asarcornis leucoptera (Blyth) ; Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 19. 



Fairly common on the rice fields upcouutry in Bandon and almost 

 down to the coast, generally in pairs but sometimes in larger 

 numbers. A male was shot at Ban Kok Klap. 



12. DENDROCYCNA JAVANICA. 



Dendrocycna javanica (Horsf.) ; Salvad., tom. cit., p. 156; Robinson 

 and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 21. 



Very common in flock of considerable size but rather wild as they 

 are much shot at by the Siamese. 



