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common fishing owl Ketupa javanensis was seen on the rice-fields and 

 the note of a Scojjs, probably 8c. lempiji, heard in the jungle on the 

 hills. As on every other island on these coasts, birds, in the old 

 jungle, were extraordinarily scarce both in species and in individuals, 

 the only ones at all common being, Cittocincla inacrura, Eudynamis 

 honorata, Micropus melanocephalus and Cyornis sumatrensis. In the 

 secondary jungle Pellorneum suhochraceum and Turdinus olivaceus 

 were not infrequent, while, in the open country and among the 

 coconut groves, Pycnonotus finlaysoni, Galornis chalyhea, Eulabes 

 intermedia and the two bee-eaters were the dominant forms. 

 All the sunbirds (with the exception of N. malaccensis) the flower 

 pecker, Dicseum cruentahim and Mixornis gularis were confined to 

 a nari'ow littoral belt. The rice-field bii'ds were those common 

 in similar situations all over the Malay Peninsula. 



The Black and White Imperial Pigeon {Myristicivora hicolor) 

 which swarms on the southern islands at about the same time 

 of year was not met with, though it possibly occurs, while the 

 existence of the Finfoot Heliornis personata on Koh Pennan is 

 a very surprising fact. The cormorant, which was common, is hardly 

 known further south. 



Two species not hitherto met with within the limits of the Malay 

 Peninsula — viz., Collocalia mergtiiensis and Acrocephalus histriyiceps 

 were secured, the former being extraordinarily abundant, breeding 

 in great numbers on caves and hollows in the cbain of small rocky 

 islands between the larger islands and the mainland. 



TURNICID^. 

 1. TURNIX TAIGOOR. 

 Turnix taiyoor (Sykes) ; Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 xxii, p. 530 (1894). 



Fairly common on both islands among the lalang. 



PHASANID^. 

 GALLUS GALLUS. 



antea, p. 87. 



Jungle cock were heard on the west side of Koh Samui but none 

 were obtained. 



TRERONID^. 

 2. TRERON NIPALENSIS. 

 Treron nipalensis (Hodgs.) ; Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 

 p. 34 ; Robinson and Kloss, Ibis., 1910, p. 674. 



The Thick-billed Pigeon was very common on Koh Samui. 

 3. OSMOTRERON VERNANS. 



antea, p. 88. 



Fairly common on both islands but not nearly so numerous as on 

 the Tioman group, further south. 



