THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 17 



1- Francolinus pintadeanus (Scop.), 



Tetrao pintademuis, Scop., Del. Flor. et Faun. Insubr. ii, 1786, 

 p. 93 (Bourbon) ; Oberholser, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 32, 

 1919, p. 21. 



Francolinus ckinensis, G., p. 151 (Ratburi and Petchabuvi). 



The above citation by Gairdrier, without any details of exact 

 locality of specimens obtained, is the only authority for the occur- 

 rence of the Francolin within the limits now dealt with. In Tenas- 

 serim it only occurs in the extreme north, but is apparently not 

 uncommon ne^r Bangkok, though whether the bird is really wild 

 there is strongly queried.* 



This is the species known hitherto as Francolinus chinensis 

 — a name which Oberholser has shown to be untenable. 



2- Rhizothera longirostris (Temm.). 



Ferdix longirostris, Temm., Pig, et Gall, iii, 1815, pp. 323, 721 



(Sumatra), 

 Rhizothera longirostris, Inglis, Journ, Nat. Hist, Soc, Bombay, 



xxvi, 1918, p. 291 (Bokpyin, S. Tenasserim ) ; M.l, p. 35 



(Patiyu). 



§. Tapli, Pakchan Estuary, Peninsular Siam. 9 March, 1919. 

 [No. 4528], • 



" Iris chocolate ; bill black ; feet pale whitish yellow." 



Total length 370; wing 195; tail 85; tarsus 54; bill from 

 gape 33 mm. 



This bird was shot in dry bamboo jungle and is the second 

 record for the kingdom of Siam, though it is doubtless common in 

 Patani. It agrees exactly with birds of the same sex from Selangor 

 and Pahang. The northernmost record is the specimen recorded 

 above from S. Tenasserim. 



3. Tropicoperdix charltoni (Eyton). 



Ferdix charltonii, Eyton, Ann. and Mag. Nat, Hist, xvi, 1845, 

 p, 230 (Malacc:.), 



*We are now of opinion that Williamson'^ entry of this species in 

 his " Preliminary List of the Bii'ds of Bangkok " was incorrect, and that 

 the bird does not occur in the neighbourhood of Bangkok in a really wild 

 state. Vide Vol. i, pp. 47 and 120 of this Journal. — Eds. 



!• Gyldenstolpe, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



56, No. ^, 1916. (tirst part). 



J. Eobinson, Journ. F. M. S. Mus. vii, 1917. Baker, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



K. Kloss, Ibis, 1918. (second part). 



L. Robinson and Kloss, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, M.l. Baker, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, iv, 1920. 



iii, 1919. (third part). 



VOL, V, NO, 1, 1921. 



