THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 101 



Haliastur intermedins, E., p, 114 (Patani) ; F., p. 24 (Malay Penin- 

 sula) ; Bf., p. 144 (Bandon Ids.) ; I., p. 129 (Koh Lak) ; L., p. 

 93 (Ghirbi). 



Imm. Renong river, Peninsular Siam. 22 February, 1919. 

 (No. 4167). 



" Iris brown ; bill and cere greenish lead ; feet dirty yel- 

 lowish grey." 



The Brahminy Kite is common everywhere on the coasts, 

 extending some distance inland over the rice fields. 



We cannot agree with Sclater {fide Baker, Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 Soc. Siam, iv, 1920, p. 29) that Haliastur Indus intermedius is 

 confined to the Indo-Malayan Islands. Birds from the Malay Penin- 

 sula, nearly to Bangkok, are certainly nearer to this form, though 

 in Central and Eastern Siam some approach is shown to the typical 

 Indian race, H. i. Indus. 



148. Milvns melanotis (Temm. & Schleg.). 



Milvus melanotis, Temm. & Schleg., Faun. Japon., 1845-50, p. 14. 



pis. V, v b ; G., p. 151 (Ratburi and Petchabuvi). 

 Milvus lineatus, Gray in Hardw. 111. Ind. Zoo!., i, 1832, p. i. pi. 



18 (China) ; I., p. 129 (Bangkok). 



Mr. Williamson's collection includes a female from Koh Lak 

 shot on December 26, 1921. 



" Iris dark brown ; bill dark horn, gape light bluish -grey, cSre 

 dirty white ; legs pale bluish-white, claws dark horn ". 



Total length 664 (flesh); wing 498; tail, 295 mm. 



149. Milvus migrans govinda Sykes. 



Milvus govinda, Syk. s, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 81 (Dekkan, India); G., 



p. 151 (Ratburi and Petchaburi). 

 Milvus affinis, A., p. 23 (Tavoy, Mergui) ; C. ii, p. 202 (Tenasserim). 

 Milvus migrans govinda, Gyldenstolpe, Ibis, 1920, p. 746 (Bangkok 

 and neighbourhood). 



A very rare visitor to the Malay Peninsula ; we have a single 



specimen from near Taiping, Perak, shot in November 1910. 



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



T, -vr c ,r^^' ■^.?- ^^ ^^^^- <first part). 



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



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



L. Eobinson and Kloss, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, M. I. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iv, 1920. 



iii. 1919. ■ (third part). 



VOL. V, NO. 2, 1922. 



