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STERNA MELANAUCHEN, Tem. eee 
Sterna melanauchen, Temm.; Sawnders, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xxv., p. 126 (1896); Oates, Cat. Birds Hggs Brit. Mus., i., p. 195, 
pl. xv., fig. 3 (1901). 
The Black-naped Tern breeds sparingly on the rocks and cliffs of 
the islands of Sri Buat, Tioman, Pemanggil and Aor, off the coasts of 
Pahang and Johore, not, as a rule, at any great height above sea-level. 
The eggs are always single and are laid in slight depressions of the 
rock without any attempt at a nest or concealment. Twelve eggs, all 
obtained on Pulau Aor, vary less among themselves than is the case 
with those of St. anxstheta, the differences being mainly in the 
size and tint of the larger olive brown blotches. An average egg 
measures 41 x 28 mm. 
METOPIDIUS INDICUS (Latu.). 
Metopidius indicus (Lath.); Shanpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxiv. 
p. 76 (1896) ; Blanford, Faun. Brit. Ind. Birds, iv., p. 219 (1898). 
Blanford (loc. cit.) gives the range of the Bronze-winged Jacana 
as extending to the Malay Peninsula though I have been unable to 
find any authority for his statement and had therefore excluded it 
from my Hand-lst of the Birds of the Malay Peninsula. 
A single specimen was, however, shot among thick vegetation at 
the edge of a pond at Asam Kumbang, near Taiping, Perak, by the 
Chinese Taxidermist of the Perak Museum on 14th December, 1911, 
and a companion bird was seen. The species must therefore be, 
added to the Peninsular list. 
NETTION CRECCA (Liny.). 
Nettion crecea (Lann.); Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvu., 
p. 243 (1895). 
A female teal was shot in the vicinity of Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, 
in April, 1912, by Mr. J. Galloway, to whom the museum is indebted 
for many rare birds, and presented by him to the Selangor Museum. 
I had overlooked the occurrence of this bird in the Peninsula but a 
female collected by Dr. Maingay in the territory of Malacca is in the 
British Museum collection. 
I do not know of any other instance of its occurrence within our 
limits. 
NETTION FORMOSUM (GzorG1r). 
Nettion formosum (Georgi); Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xxvil., p. 240 (1895). 
My Malay assistant on a visit to his home on the Bruas river in 
the Dindings territory, north of the mouth of the Perak river, 
bought from a local Malay two pairs of the Baikal Teal. The 
original owner stated that he had caught them as ducklings in the. 
river with a casting net (jala) but it is probable that they were the 
offspring of a domesticated pair. 
