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common fishing owl Ketwpa javanensis was seen on the rice-fields and 
the note of a Scops, probably Sc. lempiji, heard in the jungle on the 
hills. As on every other island on these coasts, birds, in the old 
jungle, were extraordinarily scarce both in species and in individuals, 
the only ones at all common being, Cittocincla macrura, Eudynamis 
honorata, Micropus melanocephalus and Cyornis swmatrensis. In the 
secondary jungle Pellorneum subochraceum and Turdinus olivaceus 
were not infrequent, while, in the open country and among the 
coconut groves, Pycnonotus finlaysoni, Calornis chalybea, Eulabes 
imtermedia and the two bee-eaters were the dominant forms. 
All the sunbirds (with the exception of N. malaccensis) the flower 
pecker, Dicewm cruentatum and Mixornis gularis were confined to 
a narrow littoral belt. The rice-field birds were those common 
in similar situations all over the Malay Peninsula. 
The Black and White Imperial Pigeon (Myristicivora bicolor) 
which swarms on the southern islands at about the same time 
of year was not met with, though it possibly occurs, while the 
existence of the Finfoot Heliornis personata on Koh Pennan is 
avery surprising fact. The cormorant, which was common, is hardly 
known further south. 
Two species not hitherto met with within the limits of the Malay 
Peninsula—viz., Collocalia merquiensis and Acrocephalus bistrigiceps 
were secured, the former being extraordinarily abundant, breeding 
in great numbers on caves and hollows in the chain of small rocky 
islands between the larger islands and the mainland. 
TURNICIDA. 
1. TURNIX TAIGOOR. ~ 
Turnix taigoor (Sykes); Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xxii, p. 530 (1894). 
Fairly common on both islands among the lalang. 
PHASANIDA. 
GALLUS GALLUS. 
antea, p. 87. 
Jungle cock were heard on the west side of Koh Samui but none 
were obtained. 
TRERONID 4i. 
2, TRERON NIPALENSIS. 
Treron nipalensis (Hodgs.); Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 
p. 34; Robinson and Kloss, Ibis., 1910, p. 674. 
The Thick-billed Pigeon was very common on Koh Samui. 
3. OSMOTRERON VERNANS. 
antea, p. 88. 
Fairly common on both islands but not nearly so numerous as on 
the Tioman group, further south. 
