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neighbourhood, but I failed to observe it in Northern Siam, though 

 it possibly occurs round the towns and villages with the Jungle-Crow. 

 In real jungles, however, it is always replaced by Corvus 

 macrorhynchus Wagl." 



Gyldenstolpe was, of course, in error in stating that this 

 bird is very common in Bangkok and its neighbourhood, as I pointed 

 out in Part I of my Paper on the Birds of Bangkok in the Journal 

 of this Society, Vol. I, No. 2, page 76 (1914). I remarked then that 

 I had never seen the bird here. 



Finally, Gyldenstolpe in " A Nominal List of the Birds at 

 present known to inhabit Siam " (Ibis, 1 920 ? p. 448), observes : — 

 " In the British Museum (Natural History) there is a specimen 

 collected by Mouhot in Siam. Also observed in Bangkok by the 

 present author." 



Some years ago Mr. K. G. Gairdner informed me that he 

 had seen this bird at Petchaburi, a town about 150 km. south-west 

 of Bangkok on the Southern line of railway, and the Rev. Lucius C. 

 Bulkley, of Petchaburi, states (in a letter just received) that he has 

 always understood that the Burmese House-Crow was found at 

 Ratburi — 101 km. west of Bangkok, on the same line. Both these 

 towns are in the Province of Rajaburi. I am not aware of the 

 locality where Mouhot obtained his specimen, but as he spent four 

 months in Petchaburi Province in 1860, it may well be that he 

 procured it there. 



In the Bangkok Museum there are two mounted specimens, 

 in an excellent state of preservation, with a label giving the Latin 

 and English names, but no date — the handwriting being said to be 

 that of the late Dr. E. Haase, Scientific Director of the Museum, 

 who died in Bangkok in 1894. The taxidermist of the Museum. 



Khun Bamrunof I'D 14 LIT J 0), informs me that he himself shot the 

 birds at Pran, in S. E. Siam, 235 km. from Bangkok on the Southern 

 line, and about 85 km. south of Petchaburi. The year, he states 

 emphatically, was that of the " trouble with the French," i.e., 1893, 

 when a French Inspector of Police was shot on the Mekong, and two 

 French gunboats forced the passage of the Menam Chao Phya (the 

 river on which Bangkok stands) after a skirmish with the forts at 

 the mouth of the "river. This date coincides well with that of the 

 death of Dr. Haase, who was succeeded at the Museum by Capt. 

 Stanle}' S. Flower. 



The position appears, therefore, to be that three authentic 

 Siamese specimens of the Burmese House-Crow are on record — 

 one obtained by Mouhot about the year 1860, now in the British 

 Museum in London, and two collected by Khun Bamrung, the 

 taxidermist of the Bangkok Museum about the year 1893, and still 



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