MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 123 



In Hume's Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, tins Earbet is 

 described as common in the Thoungyin Valley, and in the Fauna of 

 British India as found in Tenasserim only, so the area in which it 

 occurs appeal's to be very restricted. The distinctive mark is the 

 verditer blue band across the vertex, instead of black as in C. asiatica, 

 ■with the forehead and rest of the crown crimson. 



I also obtained specimens of Baza lojjJiotes (F. 1251 ), the 

 Black-crested Baza ; Ter'psiphone a-ffi.nis ( F. 599 ), the Burmese 

 Paradise Flycatcher, and saw Peacock-Pheasants, Silver Pheasants 

 Francolin, Partridges, Jungle-Fowl and Bustard Quail at various places 

 on the route. 



Mr. Gairdner, I am told, obtained specimens of Oissa chinensis 

 and Cyanops davisoni in 1912 from near the Tenasserim boundary. 

 There appears to be a little doubt as to what the note of Cyanops 

 davisoni is, and it will be interesting to know whether the monotonous 

 trisyllabic note, so well known b}'' those who have camped near the 

 Tenasserim boundary, belongs to this bird. 



J. F. KEDDIE. 

 July, 1914. 



No. XII.— OCCURRENCE OF THE KRAIT (BUNQARUS 



CANDIDU8) AND THE SMALL-SPOTTED CORAL SNAKE 



{CALLOPHIS MACULICEPS) IN SIAM. A NEW COLOR 



VARIETY OF THE LATTER. 



I mentioned in the last number of the Journal (p. 7), that 

 certain species of poisonous snakes, would, on account of their known 

 distribution, be no doubt ultimately found in Siam. Two of that list 

 have since been shown to exist here. 



Bungarus candidus. I am indebted to Mrs. Collins for this 

 snake, caught in one of the bungalows at Sriracha. Male. Total 

 length, 850 mm., tail 100. Ventrals 220. Subcaudals 47. Color. 

 Twentj^ broad white bands upon the body and seven upon the tail, 

 each one with a fair amount of black mottling occupying the middle 

 two-fourths. Tail below mottled with grey. The stomach contained 

 an earth snake ( Typhlops braminus) . 



Callophis macidieeps . I have examined no less than 8 speci- 

 mens from various parts of Siam, as the appended list will show, so 



