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*929. — Bubulcus coromandus, Bodd. 



[Klang.] 

 *989. — Sterna bergii, Licht. 



[Pulo Nongsa, Johore Straits.] 



*1000 bis. — Fregata minor, Gm. 



[Pulo Nongsa.] 



Davison has repeatedly seen frigate birds about the coasts 

 of the Malay Peninsula, at Tonka, Copah . and on one occasion 

 at Lankowrie Islands, north of Penang, he saw nearly twenty 

 together, but he has never succeeded in procuring one. 

 Lieutenant Kelham, of the 74th Regiment, however, succeeded 

 in shooting one on Pulo Nongsa, an island about 30 miles 

 south-west of Singapore. 



This bird, which I take to be a young one, just assuming, in 

 places, mature plumage, measures as follows in the skin :— 



Length, 28 ; wing, 20'3 ; tail from iusertion of feathers, 

 11 "3 ; bill, along curve of culmen to point, from margin jf 

 feathers, 4*6 ; from gape straight to point, 4*0 ; mid toe and 

 claw, 2 65; claw, only (which is feebly serrated on inner 

 edge), 0-8 ; tarsi, 0'7. 



The space between the lower mandibles and a lengthened 

 triangular pouch (apex downwards), running for nearly two 

 inches down the throat, forming doubtless in life a pouch, bare ; 

 the whole of the rest of the head and neck all round, sordid 

 fawny white, most of the feathers faintly darker shafted, and 

 a good many of them, especially on the occiput and at the base 

 of the throat, suffused towards the tips with pale chestnut. 



The upper breast hair brown, passing into blackish brown on 

 the lower breast ; the abdomen pure white ; the sides, flanks, 

 tibial plumes, and lower tail coverts, and entire under surface 

 of the wing, blackish brown, almost black in some places, and 

 there with a faint green gloss ; winglet, primaries, secondaries 

 and their greater coverts blackish ; tertiaries and tail (which 

 latter is much abraded) dark hair brown ; lesser and median 

 wing coverts hair brown, each feather margined with brownish 

 white ; back, scapulars, rump and upper tail-coverts dark hair 

 brown ; most of the feathers of the middle back a good deal 

 Avorn and weathered, and in amongst these peeping out a few 

 new feathers, much darker, and with a purple or green sheen. 



*1003. — Pelecanus javaiiicus, Horsf. 



[Klang in Selangore.] 



A single specimen of the large Pelican, of the onocratalus 

 type, which we identify in India as above, was shot for us in 

 July by Mr. H. 0. Syers. Some years Pelicans appear iu 



