588 Count Nils Gyldenstolpe : A Nominal [Ibis, 



Nyctiornis athertoni Jard. & Selby. 



Nijctiornis athertoni Jardine & Selby, 111. Orn. ii. 1828, 

 pi. 58 : " India." 



Not comnion, though generally distributed throughout 

 Siam proper and extending southwards at least to the 

 latitude of Koh Lak. 



Nyctiornis amicta Tennn. 



Merops amictns Teniniinck, Planches Col. Nr. 310, 1824 : 

 Bencoolen, Sumatra. 



Replaces the foregoing species in the southern parts of 

 peninsular Siam. Specimens recorded from Ban Kok Klap, 

 Kao Nawng, Bandon, Trang, and Ratburi (according to 

 Gairdner) . 



Family Alcedinid^. 



Ceyx tridactyla Pall. 



Alcedo tridactiila Pallas, Spic. Zool. vii. pi. 2. fig. 1, p. 10, 

 1769 : India. 



Generally distributed throughout Siam, though nowhere 

 common. 



Ceyx rufidorsa innominata Salvad. 



Cey.v innominata Salvadori^ Atti R. Accad. Torino, iv. 

 1869, p. 465 : Java. 



Recorded from peninsular Siam, where specimens have 

 been collected at Ban Kok Klap. Also found on the island 

 of Puket. 



Carcineutes pulchellus Horsf. 



Ikicelo pulchella Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. xiii. 

 1821, p. 175 : Java. 



Generally distributed throughout the whole country, 

 though apparently not common. 



Halcyon coromanda coromanda Lath. 



^livedo coromanda Lath. Ind. Orn. i. 1790, p. 252 : Coro- 

 mandel coast. 



Not common, though generiilly distributed throughout 

 Siam, specimens having been collected at Koon Tan, Patani, 

 and on Puket and Pulu Terutau. 



