16 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds from the 



from " Malacca/' while the Selangor ]Museum possesses a 

 specimen from Klang that we regard as belonging to the 

 same species, which lias also been recorded by Grant from 

 Patani. In Trang this bird kept in large flocks, and, unlike 

 Bubulcus coromcmdus, was so shy as to be almost un- 

 approachable. 



-p- 35. Bubulcus coROMANDUs. 



Bubulcus coromandus (Bodd.) ; Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 217. 



The Cattle-Egret is a bird of very uncertain distribution 

 in the Peninsula, though in some districts, usually near the 

 coast, it is very abundant. It is, as its trivial name implies, 

 almost invariably associated with cattle, in the case of the 

 Malay Peninsula with the water-buffalo, which it attends 

 so closely that it is often difficult to obtain specimens with- 

 out injuring or stampeding the beasts. It was very numerous 

 and tame in Trang in December and in Langkawi in 

 November. In the south of the Peninsula the buff breeding- 

 plumes are assumed about April. 



ClCONIID^. 

 -t-36. DiSSURA EPISCOPUS. 



Dissura episcopus (Bodd.) ; Sbarpe, torn. cit. p. 291. 



This Stork is common on the rice-fields and open plains 

 of Trang and also in Langkawi. Dr. Annandale and I found 

 it abundant in the interior of the Patani States on the 

 east coast of the Peninsula, but it has not, as yet, been 

 recorded from south of the latitude of Penang. 



7 37. Leptoptilus dubius. 



Leptoptilus dubius Sharpe^ tom. cit. p. 315. 



A specimen of this large Adjutant was obtained on the 

 Lay Song Hong, a shallow lake or rather lagoon in the 

 interior of Trang, in January 1910. 



Most of the records for this species from the Malay 

 Peninsula should probably be referred to the smaller species 

 L.javanicus Horsf., wliich is very common along the coast^ 

 though hard to procure in most places owing to its shyness 

 and the depth of the mud, which is infested with crocodiles. 



