1922] Robinson & Kloss: Birds of Malacca Straits. 253 



XVI. BIRDS FROM THE ONE FATHOM BANK 



LIGHTHOUSE, STRAITS OF MALACCA, 



November, 1918 and November and December, 1919, 



by 

 H. C. Robinson and C. Boden Kloss. 



The One Fathom Bank Lighthouse is an erection on 

 a submerged bank in the middle of the Straits of Malacca 

 about fifteen miles distant from Pulau Pintu Gedong, 

 the nearest point of the Selangor Coast and about 

 26 miles from the Aroa Islands towards the Sumatran 

 coast, whence a collection has already been reported on 

 (Journ. Fed. Malay States Mus. ii, pp 8-14 (1906). This 

 collection was made during November and is very 

 similar in character. 



The present list adds two birds to the Fauna of the 

 Malay Peninsula, viz: — 



Chelidon dasijpus (Bp.) 



Oceanodroma monorhis (Swinh.) 



while several species only rarely met with on the main- 

 land were found in abundance. 



With very few exceptions all the specimens were 

 either killed against the light or captured while fluttering 

 around it. Species which were obtained on the Aroa 

 Islands are marked with an asterisk. 



1. Treron nipalensis, Hodgs. 1^,2$ 



*2. Ptilinopus jambu (Gm.) .6^,59 



3. Rallina fasciata (Raffles). 6^,11$ 



4. Rallina superciliaris (Eyton) . 15,3? 



*5. Amaurornis phoenicura chinensis (Bodd.). l5,l? 



*6. Sterna aenetheta. Scop. 1^,29 



7. Sterna fluviatilis tibetana, Saunders. 1 $ 



8. Sterna (?) sinensis, Gm. 2 9 



The identification of these small terns in immature 

 and winter plumage is a somewhat uncertain matter. 



9. Oceanodroma monorhis (Swinh.). 1 $ 



10. Terekia cinerea (Guldenst). 1^ 



11. Limonites subminuita (Middendorf ) . l9 



12. Gallinago sthenura (Kuhl) . 1 $ 



13. Butorides javanica javanica (Horsf .) , I $ 



