ini- H. C. Robinson: Birds from Pulau Langkawi. 141 



b. 3. Ulu Malacca. Pulau Langkawi. 1S1I1 Dec- 

 ember, 1912. 

 Not very common anywhere in the Malay Peninsula 

 but apparently more abundant in the northern parts. 

 31. Gallinago stenura (Bonap.). 



Gallinago stenura, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv, 

 p. 619; Grunt Fascic. Malay enses, Zool. iii, p. 117 (1906) : Robin- 

 son and Kloss. Ibis, 191 1, p. 14. 



a. £ ad. Langkawi Id. 10th February, 1909. 



b. S ad. Langkawi Id. c8th March, 1909. 

 ' ad. Langkawi Id. 25th April, 1915. 



A winter visitor in verv large numbers to the Malay 

 Peninsula where also G.ccelestis and G. megala are also occasion- 

 ally met with. 



22. Xenorhynchus ASIATICI'S (Lath.). 



Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvi, p. 310 

 (1898) ; Gyldcnstolpe, p. 140. 



a. 9. North side of Telibun Straits, Trang, S.W. 

 Siam. 1st January. 1917. [No. 3808] . 

 " Iris chrome, orbits black, bill black, gular skin 

 crimson lake mottled with black, lores mottled crimson and 

 black feet deep salmon pink." 



This specimen was one of a pair that frequented the 

 shore in the neighbourhood of the seaward entrance to the 

 Telibun Straits and which was eventually shot on a sandy 

 lagoon near the sea. The nest, a very large and untidy 

 structure of sticks, was built on a ledge some distance up a 

 precipitous limestone crag. It contained four eggs, which 

 were obtained for us by one of the local " orang laut," a 

 primitive coast-tribe, who are very clever and daring cliff climb- 

 ers. One was unfortunately broken in the descent. The 

 remaining three were rather hard set, the shells dull or slightly 

 glossy white, heavily pitted especially towards the smaller end. 

 The outline is variable one being much more pointed than the 

 other two. 



Measurements.— A 715 X 54 mm. 

 B 70 y 52 

 C 71 x 52-5 



The occurrence of the species in the Malay Peninsula has 

 hitherto rested in three specimens from " Penang," in the 

 British Museum, collected by Cantor. The locality given is 

 almost certainly incorrect and the specimens must either have 

 been aviary birds or collected on the adjacent mainland, 

 probably in Perlis or Trang. 



23. Graptocephalus davisoni (Hume). 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas. xxvi, p. 14 (1898 : 

 Robinson and Kloss, p. 17: Robinson, antea, vol. V, p. 89 (1915). 



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