Northern Portion of the Malay Peninsula, 11 
migratory. A male was obtained on Langkawi in February 
1909. 
13. Amaurornis phcenicura. 
Amaurornis phcenicura (Forst.); Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 156. 
Common in Trang and in Langkawi, as throughout the 
Peninsula, in swamps, and especially among the thick and 
tangled vegetation on the banks of rivers flowing through 
more or less cultivated ground. The Malay name for the 
bird in the south is ayam ayam } which may be translated 
“ a kind of a hen ” ! ! 
Larim. 
14. Sterna bergii. 
Sterna bergii Licht.; Saunders, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
xxv. p. 89 (1896). 
Common at Langkawi and Terutau in November 1907 and 
March 1909. 
This large Tern is distinctly a deep-water species, and is, 
in the main, found off rocky islets or in the middle of the 
Straits of Malacca, and not inshore on the mud-flats as are 
the smaller species of Sternula. 
Charadriidje. 
15. Sarcogrammus atrinuchalis. 
Sarcogrammus atrinuchalis Jerdon; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 
Mus. xxiv. p. 152 (1896). 
Exceedingly common on the Langkawi group and through¬ 
out Trang on the buffalo-lawns and rice-fields, but rather 
rarer down south, except on the Pahang Biver, where the 
bird nests on the broad sand-banks that border the river in 
certain parts of its course. 
In the south the bird is known to the Malays as the 
burong duit duit or burong mint a duit } the “ ask a penny bird, 55 
from its cry. 
Hoplopterus ventralis. 
Hoplopterus ventralis Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 159. 
On the road between Tap-tien and Chong, after heavy rain 
