122 MESSRS. ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



6. Tung Prau, Takuatung, W. Peninsular Siam, 12 February 

 1919 (No. 3956). 



" Iris dark ; bill and feet blood red ". 



This Kingfisher is never found far from salt water, but is 

 fairly common along tlie coasts and islands of W. Peninsular Siam 

 and as far south as the Langkawi group : we are not aware that it 

 has been met with on the east coast of the Peninsula. 



185. Ramphalcyon capensis burmanica (Sharpe). 



Pelargopsis burmanica, SliMipe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 67 (Tuunghoo, 

 Bui-ma) ; A., p. 73 ( Tavoy to Bauka«oon ) ; C. ii, p. 78 ; 

 (Tenasserim and soutliAvards). 

 Pelar(joj}sis fraseri, E., p. 1 11 (Pattani?). 

 liaiiiphalcyon capensis burmanica, Oberholser, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus. XXXV, 1909, p. 670. 

 Pelargoiysis malaccensis, 11., p. 145 (Koli Peiiuau) ; B., p. 46 (Junk 



Seyluu ? ). 

 Pelargopsis capensis malaccensis, I., p. 114 (Koh Lak). 

 Pelargopsis gurial burmanica, "Williamson, Journ. N. H. S. Siain, 



ii, 1917, p. 334 (Bangkok ; S. W. Siam). 

 Pelargopsis javana malaccensis, Pjiriot, Verb. Oni. Ges. Bayern, 8, 



1908, p. 112 (Petchaburi). 

 6. Namchuk, Pakchan, Peninsular Siam, 25 February 1919 

 (No. 4234). 



2 6. Koh Lak, S. W. Siam. 3 April 1919 (Nos. 4998-9). 

 9. Hat Sanuk, S. W. Siam, 15 April 1919 (No. 5317). 

 6. Kandhuli, Chaiya, Peninsular. Siam, 13 September 

 1919 (E. Seimund). 



" Iris dark, eyelid crimson ; bill blood red, darker at tip ; feet 

 coral, claw^s dark horn." 



Total length d, 372, 365, 373 ; ?, 373 ; wing 6, 141, 152, 148 ; 

 9, 152; tail, 6 100. 108,112; 9, 113; tarsus c^, 16, 18.5, 18; 9,16; 

 bill from gape d, 93, 94, 94; 9, 94 mm. 



All this series have a dull clay-coloured cap, washed with 

 green but (|uite unstreaked. Beneath, the colour is somewhat rich 

 ochraceous rufous, deeper in tint than specimens of the Peninsula 



A. nuiuu & Davison. Stray J-'calhers, vi, 1878. E. (,). Gianl, Fasciculi Malayeuses, iii (Birds), 1006. 



B. Miiller, Die Oriiis dcr Inscl Halanga, 188'2. F. Robinson and KIoss, Ibis, 1910-11. 



C. Oatcs, Birds Brit. Burinah, Vols, i (x. ii, 1883. C. Gairdncr, Journ. N. H. Soc. t>iam, i. 1915. 

 O. BoDbotc, r. Z. S. 1901, Vol. i. H. Kobinsou, Journ. 1". M, 8. Musoums, v, 1915. 



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