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migratory. A male was obtained on Langkawi in February 

 1909. 



^■13. AmAURORNIS PH(ENICURA. 



Amaurornis phcenicura (Forst.) ; Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 156. 



Common in Trang and in Langkawi, as throughout the 

 Peninsula, in swamps, and especially among the thick and 

 tangled vegetation on the banks of rivers flowing through 

 more or less cultivated ground. The Malay name for the 

 bird in the south is ayam ayam, which may be translated 

 " a kind of a hen '' ! ! 



Larid^e. 

 4l4. Sterna bergii. 



Stei-na bergii Licht. ; Saunders, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 XXV. p. 89 (1896). 



Common at Langkawi and Terutau in November 1907 and 

 March 1909. 



This large Tern is distinctly a deep-water species, and is, 

 in the main, found off rocky islets or in the middle of the 

 Straits of Malacca, and not inshore on the mud-flats as are 

 the smaller species of Sternula. 



Chakadriid^. 

 4- 15. Sarcogrammus atrinuchalis. 



Sarcogrammus atrinuchalis Jerdon; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus. XXIV. p. 153 (1896). 



Exceedingly common on the Langkawi group and through- 

 out Trang on the buffalo-lawns and rice-fields, but rather 

 rarer down south, except on the Pahang River, where the 

 bird nests on the broad sand-banks that border the river in 

 certain parts of its course. 



In the south the bird is known to the Malays as the 

 burong duit dull or burong mint a duit, the " ask a penny bird," 

 from its cry. 



- HOPLOPTERUS VENTRALIS. 



Hoplopterus ventralis Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 159. 



On the road between Tap-tien and Chong, after heavy rain 



