89 
In Bandon the species was very common but excessively wary and 
hard to obtain. It was seen either singly or in small numbers on the 
rice fields but collected in large flocks towards evening and roosted on 
lofty trees in company with Disswra episcopus and Graptocephalus 
davisoni. In the south of the Peninsula it is replaced by Ps. lacteus, 
which, however, appears to be almost exclusively a marine species. 
IBIDID As. 
s. IBIS MELANOCEPHALA. 
Ibis melanocephala (Lath.) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvu., 
p- 8 (1898). 
Seimund obtained one specimen out of a large flock feeding on the 
mud-flats at the mouth of the Bandon river. The species is by no 
means scarce in the Malay Peninsula but is always very wary and 
difficult to obtain. 
: 9, GRAPTOCEPHALUS DAVISONI. 
Graptocephalus davisoni (Hume) ; Sharpe, tom. cit., p. 14 (1898) ; 
Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 17. 
One male was shot out of a flock roosting on a very lofty tree 
on the banks of the Bandon river. 
ARDEID A. 
10. HERODIAS ALBA. 
Herodias alba (Linn.); Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxvi., p. 90 
(1898). 
Seimund shot -a male from out of a large flock at Bandon 
on 4th June. The bird is moulting into breeding plumage and the 
ornamental train is beginning to appear but the feet are dull black 
and the bill uniform chrome yellow as in the winter plumage. Like 
other specimens from the Malay Peninsula the size is very small, the 
dimensions being, wing 12.1, culmen, 4.1 and tarsus, 5.6 inches. 
ANATID A. 
ll. ASARCORNIS LEUCOPTERA. 
Asarcorms seutulata (part.) Salvad., Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 1) XXVI1., 
p- 60 (1895). 
Asarcornis leucoptera (Blyth) ; Robinson and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 19. 
Fairly common on the rice fields upcountry in Bandon and almost 
down to the coast, generally in pairs but sometimes in larger 
numbers. A male was shot at Ban Kok Klap. 
12. DENDROCYCNA JAVANICA. 
Dendrocyena javanica (Horsf.) ; Salvad., tom. cit., p. 156; Robinson 
and Kloss, tom. cit., p. 21. 
Very common in flock of considerable size but rather wild as they 
are much shot at by the Siamese. 
