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218. Sutoria sutoria (Forst.). 

 Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 471. 



Recorded from North Hainan by Harthuil). \Sq did mit receive any 

 specimens. 



219. Prinia sonitans Swiuh. 



Prima mnilans Swinhoe, Zmihujist 1858. p. li'2"_'9. 

 Burne.iia suiiitaiiH Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 471. 



(J Linden, March 19u3 (No. 107). 



2 cJ(J Namro, March 1003 (No. lOT). 



7 <J$ Ml. WncUi, April, May 1903 (No. 167). 



A yonng male from Mt. Wuchi (25. v. 1903) has the bill — which is entirely 

 black iu adult males and females — light brown, darker above, and the upper 

 surface of a uniform brown, with a slight green tinge, the wings widely edged 

 with rnfescent. 



Nests were found by the end of May among the grass, one to three feet from 

 the ground, and containing two to five eggs. The eggs are jiale greenish blue, 

 sometimes almost whitish, and beautifully marked with deep purplish brown 

 patches and spots, and sometimes hairlines of the same colour, and with underlying 

 patches of pale rufous or greyish purple. They are e.xactly like the well-known 

 eggs of the Indian Prinia inornata, and of the same dimensions, or partly a little 

 smaller. 



220. Prinia inornata extensicauda Swinh. 



(An subspecies nova ?) 

 Grant,/'. Z. S. 1900. p. 471. 



? Taibiushi, 16. iv. 1903 (No. 167). 



This sjjecimen agrees in coloration with extensicauihi, having the ear-coverfs 

 fulvous, head brown, and a subterminal bar on some of the tail feathers. The 

 bill is also reddish, not black as in sonitans. It has, however, a much shorter 

 wing, of 44 5 mm. — i.e. about as short as in sonitans. 



221. Horeites cantans canturians (Swiuh.). 



Arund'mnx canliirluns (.sic !) Swinhoe, Ibis ISGO. p. 02 (Amoy and Shanghai). 



Cetlia mimila Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 471, No. 51. 



Cettia canturians Grant, t.c. p. 471, No. b'2. 



Uoreites cuiilmis canturians Hartert, Viig. Pal. Fauna, p. 532. 



10 (J (J, 11 ? $ Hoihow, January, February, March 1903 (Nos. 22, 29). 



f) (?<J, 1 $ Kiungchau, February and March 1902 (Nos. 22, 29). 



It is now well known that tlie small specimens are the females, the large 

 ones the males, and that canturians and minutus are therefore one and the 

 same bird. 



222. Urosphena squamicepa (Swinh.). 



Tribura equamiceps Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863. p. '292 (Canton). 

 L'rosjJiemi squamiceps Hartert, Viig. pal. Fauna i. p. 539. 



? Liudon, March 1903 (No. 200). 



(J Mt. AVuchi, November 1905 (No. 200). 



Not previously recorded from Hainan. 



