MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 105 



No. I. A Habitat of Schomburgk's Deer (Gervus schomburgki). 



In a paper by Major E. Seidenfaden in Volume XIII of the 

 Journal of the Siam Society, the following passage occurs (Part 3, 

 May 1920, pp. 49, 50):— 



" In 1919 I met several hunters from Ampho' Pu Kio (now 

 called Pak Bang) who told me that a tribe called Kha Bong Liiang 

 (the withered leaves' savages) or Kha Tarn Bang (the savages who 

 can make themselves invisible) lived in the jungle on the slopes of 

 the big Pu Kio mountain, which to the west separates Ampho Pak 

 Bang from the Petchabun changvad. These Kha are under middle 

 height, well built, but very dark hued ; their hair is lank and 

 straight as that of mongoloid races, not curly as that of negroids ; 

 both sexes go entirely naked ; they do not construct houses but 

 live under some hastily erected leaf shelters like the Semang ; and 

 they leave these shelters, after some few days (hence the name 

 Kha Dong Liiang). Their only weapon is a sort of wooden javelin, 

 the point of which is hardened in fire ; they are courageous and able 

 hunters and chase and kill both the one-horned and the two-horned 

 rhinoceros (Kaso), the sladang or Kating ox, deer and wild pigs and 

 that rare animal, Schumburgk's deer, which is living just in this, 

 region." 



This locality is either within, or very near, the area to which 

 Mr. P. R. Kemp considers Gervus schomburgki to be restricted 

 (Jonrn. N. H. S. Siam III, p. 7), and helps us towards a more definite 

 knowledge of its habitat. 



The Journal of the Siam Society is not commonly consulted 

 by zoologists, and the passage is of sufficient interest to have their 

 attention called to it. 



C. Boden Kloss. 

 December, 1920. 



No. II. The status of the Burmese House-Crow 

 h ( Corvus splendcns insolens) as a Siamese Bird. 



Oates, in writing of G. insolens [Handbook Birds Brit. 

 Burmah (1883) I, p. 399], remarks that "It has been sent from 

 Siam, where it is probably abundant ; and Dr. Tiraud states that 

 this species is the common House-Crow of Cochin China." The 

 same author [Fauna Brit. India, Birds I (1889), p. 21] observes that 

 " This species extends into Siam and Cochin China." 



The next reference which I can trace is that of Gyldenstolpe 

 [Kungl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Hand., Band 50, No. 8. (1913), p. 18] who 

 says of Gorvus insolens: — "Very common in Bangkok and its 



VOL. IV, NO. 2, 1920. 



