196 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Dr. Bulkley -went on leave, immediately after writing this note, and 

 we understand that he took the specimen with him, for presentation 

 to one of the American Museums. 



It may be added that Mr. Williamson sent his collector to 

 Petchaburi in October (two months after Dr. Bulkley obtained his 

 bird), with express instructions to proceed to Wat Phra Taht, or 

 elsewhere in the town, for the purpose of procuring specimens of this 

 crow, but the man reports there were none to be seen. — Eds.]. 



- No. II —The Giant Ibis (Thaumatibis gigantea) in Cambodia. 



In December 1918. Dr. Malcolm Smith and I sent a couple of 

 collectors to Koli Kong (Koh= island), and the adjacent Cambodian 

 coast in about Lat 11° N., slightly below the point where the extreme 

 south-east of Siain joins French Indo-Chinese territory. 



The birds obtained on that trip have not yet been critically 

 examined, but the fact should be recorded that, among them, is a 

 pair of the still rare Ibis, T. gigantea, of which six specimens now 

 appear to be known. 



Oustalet's type came from Cochin-China [Ibis gigantea, Oust., 

 Bull. Soc. Philom. (7) I, (1877), p. 25], while the next two examples 

 were obtained in Trang, Peninsular Siam, by Dr. W. L. Abbott, and 

 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss, respectively (Ibis, 1911, p. 17), and the 

 fourth by Mr. K. G. Gairdnor in the Circle of Ratburi, on the 

 western side of central Siam [Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc. Siam. II (1916), 

 p. 71]. The two now recorded are practically topo-types of Oustalet's 

 bird, and are the first which have been secured otherwise than as 

 isolated examples. 



The collector who shot them reported, on his return, that he 

 had seen at least one other specimen, so it is to be hojoed that, at all 

 events in some part of its habitat, the bird is not quite so rare as it 

 has hitherto been believed to be. 



6 , 9. Kampong Sum Bon, near Sre Umbel, coast of Cam- 

 bodia, 24 December, 1918. 



Colours of soft parts (Native collector). Iris red, legs red. 



Measurements. Total length (Native collector), 6 1065, 9 

 1020 mm. Other measurements (dried skin). Bill from gape, <$ 

 223, 9 198. Wing, 6 554, 9 525. Tarsus, 6 113, 9 105 mm. 



W. J. F. Williamson. 

 Bangkok, October, 1921. 



No. III.— Earth Snake eating a Grass Snake. 



An instance of the common Grass Snake (Natrix piscator) 

 falling a victim to the apparently quiet and inoffensive Earth Snake 

 (Cylindrophis rwfus), came recently under my notice while out 

 after snipe. 



JOURN. NAT. HIST. SOC. SIAM. 



