1920.] List of the Birds of Siam. 76l 



Apparently rare iind only obtained during the winter 

 months, when specimens have been collected at Bangkok, 

 Sop Tue, and on Puket Island. 



Limonites miniita miniita Leisl. 



Tr'mga whuda Leisler, in Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. 

 Nachtrlig, 1812, p. 74 : Hanau, Germany. 



Recorded from Patani in peninsular Siam as well as from 

 the island of Puket. 



Limicola falcinellus Briinnich. 



Scolopax falcinellus Briinnich, Ornitli. Boreal. ] 764, p. 49 : 

 Siselaudia (i.e. Zealand). 



This is the correct name for the Broad-billed Sandi)iper 

 formerly known as Limicola platyrhi/iicha Temm. In Siam 

 specimens have been collected at Kampong Budi, Patani, 

 and at the mouth of the Menam Ohao Phya River. Eastern 

 birds have been separated on account of their paler color- 

 ation under the name of Limicola falcinellus sibirica Dresser 

 (P.Z. S. Lond. 1876, p. 674). 



Tringa tenuirostris Horsf. 



Totanus tenuirostris Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 

 xiii. 1821, p. 192 : Java. 



Williamson has recently (Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam, iii. 

 No. 1, 1918, }). 35) recorded this species, though under the 

 name of Tringa crassirostris Temm., from Lat Yai, near 

 Mekloug, in cential Siam, Avhere he found it in considerable 

 numbers in February 19L'-^. 



Tringa ferruginea chinensis J. E. Gray. 



Tringa [Pelidna) chinensis J. E. Gray, Zool. Misc. 1831, 

 p. 2 : China. 



The correct name for the bird tbrmeidy known as 

 AnchylocJiilus suharquatas Giildenstiidt will be T. ferruginea 

 Briinnich (Ornith. Boreal. 1764, p. 53). In Siam it has 

 been collected a few times — viz., at Patani, at Lakon. and at 

 Chaya in the province of Bandun. The eastern birds have 

 been separated by J. E. Gray under the above-mentioned 

 name. 



