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142 <strong>Journal</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII,<br />
(?) Thaumatibis gigantea, Williamson. Journ. Nat.<br />
His, Soc. Siam. II. p. 72 (1916^.<br />
a. 3 ad. Pasir Raja, Pulau Lontar, S. W. Siam.<br />
1 oth January, 1917. [No. 3882].<br />
" Ins orange, crown dark indigo, occiput and ring<br />
round neck livid whitish blue, feet deep lake, bill horn."<br />
This bird was one <strong>of</strong> a pair frequenting an open grassy<br />
plain interspersed with bushes near <strong>the</strong> sea. The}* were not<br />
particularly shy and with a little care were easily approached.<br />
It is evidently this species and not Thaumatibis gigantea. a<br />
much larger bird which was observed by Williamson at<br />
Sarahett on <strong>the</strong> Petchaburi River (loc. cit. supra).<br />
Total length 802; wing 422; tail 210; tarsus 97: bill<br />
from gape 165 mm. measured in <strong>the</strong> flesh.<br />
24. Sterna fluviatilis iibetana, Saunders.<br />
Sterna tibetana, Saunders, V.Z.S. 1876, p. ; 649 Blanford,<br />
Stray Feath, V, p. 485 (1871: Hume. op. cit. viii, p. 158<br />
(1879); Sharpe. Haud-l. Birds, i, p. 135 (1S99).<br />
Sterna fluviatilis, Saunders, Cat. Birds, Brit. Mus.<br />
XXV, p. 60, spm. /. (Selangor) (1896) : Blanford, Faun. Brit.<br />
hid. Birds, iv, p. 318 (1898).<br />
Sterna longipennis, Saunders, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.<br />
XXV, p. 69 (spms. ;/, v. w, from Tonka and Malacca (1896) :<br />
Blanford, torn. cit. p. 319 (1898); Robinson, Journ. Fed. <strong>Malay</strong><br />
<strong>States</strong> Mus. 11. p. 69 (19071 : id. Haud-l. Birds <strong>Malay</strong> Pcnin's.<br />
p. 3 (1910).<br />
a ? imm. Pulau Terutau. 29th November, 1912.<br />
This race <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> European tern, 5/. fluviatilis is not<br />
uncommon in <strong>the</strong> Straits <strong>of</strong> Malacca from <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong> July to<br />
January but hi<strong>the</strong>rto only immature specimens have been<br />
obtained so that <strong>the</strong> identification must remain somewhat<br />
uncertain. The distinctly reddish feet <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> considerable<br />
number <strong>of</strong> fresh specimens that I have examined would appear<br />
to exclude St. longipennis, Nordm., while <strong>the</strong> fact that <strong>the</strong><br />
wing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> majority <strong>of</strong> <strong>Malay</strong>an birds exceeds 11 inches (275<br />
mm.) tends to show that our birds cannot be referred to <strong>the</strong><br />
European St. fluviatilis fluvatilis.<br />
25.<br />
329 (1822) ; Hume<br />
Sterna sumatrana, Raffles.<br />
Sterna sumatrana, Raffles. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, p.<br />