THE BIBBS OF BANGKOK. 



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interesting feature of bird-life. It has, accordingly^ been deemed 

 advisable, at this juncture, to refrain from dealing with the subject in 

 what would necessarily (owing to lack of adequate material) have been 

 an incomplete manner. 



As was the case with the Preliminary List published in the 

 last number of the Journal, the classification and nomenclature of the 

 birds here described are taken from the Fauna of British Lidia — Birds, 

 bj^ Gates and Biauford, and the numbers in brackets are those of that 

 work. Species described in this paper, which were not included in the 

 Preliminarj^ List, are marked with an asterisk. (*) 



The area within which the birds dealt with have been obtained, 

 is that comprised by the City and its suburbs, together with the 

 surrounding country within easy walking distance thereof. This 

 limitation of area has been adopted with a view to rendering the paper 

 of pai'ticular use to those residents of the Capital (and the}^ are 

 doubtless many) whose opportunities for observation are confined to 

 Bangkok and its immediate neighbourhood. 



The following is a list of the principal books and papers to which 

 references will be made, but the names of the authors only will be 

 quoted, in order to avoid repetition of the titles of the works : — 



Blanford W. T. Blanford. The Fauna of British 



India — Birds. Vols. Ill and IV. 

 1895 and 1898. 



Gyldenstolpe Count Nils Gyldenstolpe. .Swedish 



Zoological Expedition to Siam. 1913. 



Gates Eup-ene W. Gates. The Fauna of 



British India — Birds. Vols. I and 

 II. 1889 and 1890. 



Robinson Herbert C. Robinson. A Hand-List 



of the Birds of the Malay Peninsula, 

 south of the Isthmus of Kra. 1910. 



Robinson and Kloss... Herbert C. Robinson and C. B. Klo^^s. 



Gn Birds from the Northern Portion 

 of the Malay Peninsula, including the 

 Islands of Langkawi and Terutau. 

 The Ibis, 1910-11. 



