( 192) 



japonica. The males have not a brick-red throat, but there is a snffasion of 

 brick-red on some of them. (No. 151.) 



Mr. Grant only included the r|uail on the antliority of Hartlauh, wlio had 

 received a bird shot in North Hainan on Jannary 2'J. 



0. Francolinus chinensis (Forst.).* 



Telrao Chmemis J. E. Forster, Voy. to China, by Osbeck (translated from the German translation), 



Faunula Sinensis, vol. ii. p. 320 (1771— China). 

 Fraucolimis chinensis Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 503. 



A fine series, curiously all males, from Tinman (No. 83). 



(" < 'accabis chukar " has been ijuoted by Hartlaub as having come from Hainan ; 

 but our collectors did not find it. Probably the occurrence in Hainan is not 

 genniue.) 



Clutches of four eggs (probably not full ?) were found near Tingan on May 25 

 and 27. The eggs are cream-coloured to brownish cream, and measure : 38-5 x 

 30-6, 37 X 301, 35-6 x 30, 35G x 285, 380 x 305 mm. 



7. Arboricola ardens Styan. 



Styan, Ibis, 1893. p. 43G, pi. xii. ; Grant, P. Z. S. lUOO. p. 503. 



2 (JcJ, 1 ? Mt. Wuchi, Lei Muimon and Cheteriang, January and April 1903. 

 The female agrees perfectly with the males in colour, but is smaller. The males 

 have the wings 30 and 30, the female 22 mm. long. The tarsus of the males is 

 35 and 39, that of the female 33 mm. long. (No. 133.) 



"Bill black ; iris seal-brown ; feet salmon-colour" (Katsumata). 



This beautiful bird was formerly only known from the type specimen, obtained 

 at " Luiwowan," which is evidently the same as " Lei Muimon." 



Regarding the plate in the l6/s it may be said that the breast is of a delicate 



pale salmon-jiink colour, not brownish. In the smaller one of our two males the 



grey is extended over the breast. On the sides of the upper throat is a jiafcii of 



bare pink skin instead of a patch of whitish feathers, as the plate shows, and tiie 



black feathers on the throat are sparse, the pink skin shining through in several 



places. 



8. Turnix dussumieri Temm. 

 Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 503. 



Hartlaub recorded a specimen from North Hainan. Wo did not receive 

 e.xamples. 



9. Treron nipalensis (Hodgs.) (Psubspec.) 



Toria nipalensis Hodgson, As. lies. xix. p. 1(U, pi. ix. (ISSCi). 

 Treron nipalensis Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 501. 



9 cJ^, 4 ? ? Mt. Wuchi, Lei Muimon, Oheteriang (No. 130). 



Generally the bill of the Hainan specimens is thicker, wider, and sometimes 

 longer. There is, however, so much variation, some Hainan examples having the 

 bill not larger than Lidian birds, and some of the latter coming up to those from 

 Hainan in the dimensions of the bills, that 1 cannot confidently separate the 

 Hainan form. 



* Mr. Ogilvie-Grant (Cat. B. xxii. pp. xii, 136) quotes " Tetrao chinensis Osbecli, 17>y. en Chine, ii. 

 p. 32G, 1771." Tlie edition of 1771, however, is an English translation, and to the second volume has 

 been added a "Faunula Sinensis "by Forster. The author of the name chinensis is therefore Forster, 

 not Osbeck, who wrote his book in iSwedish in 1757, i.e. before the 10th edition of Linnaeus. 



