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70. Aegiaiitis alexandrinus peroni (Bp.). 



Charadrius peroni, Bp., Compt. Remi. xlii, 1856, p. 417 (Java). 

 Aeyialitis alexandrinus, H., p. 142 (Koh Peiinan and Koh Samui). 

 Aegiaiitis jyeroni, YsiWgivcUi 'And Joues, Ibis, 191 3, p. 362 (South 



East China) ; I., p. 144 (Koh Lak). 

 Aegiaiitis alexandrinus peroni, J., p. 139 (Pulau Telibun, Trang). 



We have from the Malay Peninsula and varioas islands off 

 the coast a considerable series of a small plover, with the wing 

 always below 100 mm., and which therefore cannot, apart from 

 other considerations, be referred to any of the usually recognized 

 races of Ae. alexandrinus. Our series has been compared with a 

 large number of specimens of true Ae. peroni from Borneo, with 

 which they agree. We have little dijubt that many specimens, es- 

 pecially females or immature birds, have been recorded as Ae. 

 alexandrinus, although really this form which, in any event, can 

 only be regarded as a resident tropical race diminished in size and 

 intensified in colour precisely analogous with Ae. c. jerdoni. Lieut. 

 R. E. Vaughan and Staff Surgeon K. H. Jones record this form from 

 S. E. China, stating that it arrives from the north from August to 

 November and is resident during the winter months. 

 71- Numenius arqnatus lineatus Cuv. 



Xumenius lineatus, Cuv., Regne. Anim. i, 1829, p. 521 ; A., p. 450 



(Pakchan) ; Hume, Stray Feath. ix, 1880 (Tongka). 

 Numenius arquatus, C. ii, p. 412 (Tenasserim Coast); F., p. 12 

 (Peninsular Siam) ; L, p. 145 (Koh Lak). 



The Curlew is apparently rare and always hard to secure. 



72. I Numenius phaeopus phaeopus (Linn.). 

 \ Kumenius phaeopus variega,tus (Scop.). 



ScolojMx phaeopus, Linn., S3'st. Nat. i, 1766, p. 243 (Europe). 



Tantalus variegatus, Scopoli, Del. Flor. et Faun. Ins. IJbi. ii, 1786. 

 p. 92 (Luzori). 



JShwieniits phaeopus. A., p. 460 (Pakchan); 0. ii, p. 411 (Tenass- 

 erim coast) ; F., p. 12 (Peninsular Siam). 



Common in large flocks on the western coast in winter : a few 



specimens found single as late as June. Birds from Siam may be- 



!• Gyldenstoliie, Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Joiirn. N. H. Soe. Siam, iii, 1919. 



56, Xo. '2, 1916. (first part). 



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



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



L, llobinson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, M.I, Baker, Journ. N.H, Soc. Siam, iv, 19'20. 



iii, 1919. . (third part). 



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