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ini- H. C. Robinson: Birds from Pulau Langkawi. 141
b. 3. Ulu Malacca. Pulau Langkawi. 1S1I1 December,
1912.
Not very common anywhere in the Malay Peninsula
but apparently more abundant in the northern parts.
31. Gallinago stenura (Bonap.).
Gallinago stenura, Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxiv,
p. 619; Grunt Fascic. Malayenses, Zool. iii, p. 117 (1906) : Robinson
and Kloss. Ibis, 191 1, p. 14.
a. £ ad. Langkawi Id. 10th February, 1909.
b. S ad. Langkawi Id. c8th March, 1909.
' ad. Langkawi Id. 25th April, 1915.
A winter visitor in verv large numbers to the Malay
Peninsula where also G.ccelestis and G. megala are also occasionally
met with.
22. Xenorhynchus ASIATICI'S (Lath.).
Ogilvie Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. xxvi, p. 310
(1898) ; Gyldcnstolpe, p. 140.
a. 9. North side of Telibun Straits, Trang, S.W.
Siam. 1st January. 1917. [No. 3808] .
" Iris chrome, orbits black, bill black, gular skin
crimson lake mottled with black, lores mottled crimson and
black feet deep salmon pink."
This specimen was one of a pair that frequented the
shore in the neighbourhood of the seaward entrance to the
Telibun Straits and which was eventually shot on a sandy
lagoon near the sea. The nest, a very large and untidy
structure of sticks, was built on a ledge some distance up a
precipitous limestone crag. It contained four eggs, which
were obtained for us by one of the local " orang laut," a
primitive coast-tribe, who are very clever and daring cliff climbers.
One was unfortunately broken in the descent. The
remaining three were rather hard set, the shells dull or slightly
glossy white, heavily pitted especially towards the smaller end.
The outline is variable one being much more pointed than the
other two.
Measurements.— A 715 X 54 mm.
B 70 y 52
C 71 x 52-5
The occurrence of the species in the Malay Peninsula has
hitherto rested in three specimens from " Penang," in the
British Museum, collected by Cantor. The locality given is
almost certainly incorrect and the specimens must either have
been aviary birds or collected on the adjacent mainland,
probably in Perlis or Trang.
23. Graptocephalus davisoni (Hume).
Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mas. xxvi, p. 14 (1898 :
Robinson and Kloss, p. 17: Robinson, antea, vol. V, p. 89 (1915).
Sept., 1917. 7