143 
“Tris bright yellow, orbital skin greenish chrome, legs brownish, 
joints tinged with green, soles whitish yellow, bill black, lower 
mandible yellow at tip shading into white, chrome at base.” 
16. DEMIEGRETTA SACRA. 
Demiegretta sacra (Gm.); Sharpe, tom. cit., p. 137; Robinson and 
Kloss, tom. cit., p. 15. 
One from Koh Samui and another from Koh Pennan. The latter 
is in the grey phase and the former in the white, with a few dark 
feathers on the back and mantle and the tips of the greater wing 
coverts grey. 
“Tris pale chrome, orbital skin greenish, tarsi and feet yellowish 
green, the soles orange, upper mandible greenish, the lower yellow. 
17. ARDEOLA BACCHUS. 
Ardeola bacchus (Bp.); Sharpe, tom. cit., p, 211; Robinson and 
Kloss, tom. cit., p. 15, 
A female from Koh Samui is moulting into the breeding plumage 
and the new feathers on the crown and neck are bright chestnut. 
The dimensions however are small the wing being only 8.1 and the 
tarsus. 2.2. which agree with those of A grayi. which also occur 
in the Peninsula. 
“Tris lemon yellow, bill and orbital skin greenish yellow, tip of 
bill black, tarsi greenish yellow, feet deeper yellow.” 
18. ARDETTA SINENSIS. 
Ardetta sinensis (Gm.); Sharpe, tom. cit., p. 227. 
An adult male from Koh Pennan. 
“Tris bright yellow, orbital skin and lores greenish yellow, bill 
yellowish white, the culmen brownish horn, tarsi and toes, chrome, 
with a slight greenish cast.” 
ANATID A. 
19. DENDROCYCNA JAVANICA, 
antea, p. 89. 
There were afew Whistling Teal on the rice-fields at Koh Samui. 
* Male, iris hazel, orbital skin yellowish green, bill and feet dark 
slatey.” 
PHALACROCORACID &. 
20. PHALACROCORAX CARBO. 
Phalacrocoraz carbo (Linn.); Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 
xxvi, p. 340 (1898). 
A male in non-breeding plumage was obtained at Koh Pennan. 
“Tris emerald, gular skin chrome, feet black, bill blackish, the 
eulmen yellowish.” 
Though very rare in the south of the Peninsula Cormorants become 
much more abundant in the north; I have obtained it on the coast 
of Patani and we saw four specimens in Senggora Roads on our way 
