( 204) 



93. Nettopus coromandeliana (Gm.). 



Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 492 (Nodouho, interior of Hainan). 



1 "<J" Yon Boi, SS. vi. 19ii4 (No. -JoO). 



This e.xample is in a very cnrious plumage : the whole upper surface is 

 purjilish as in the female, and the primaries are entirely brown, not white for about 

 one-half, bnt there is the wide blackish band across the jngnlnm, as in the adnlt 

 males. 



04. Dendrocygna javanica (Horsf.). 



Anasjavanica Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 199 (1821. — Java). 



A series : Tingau (April, Ma.v) ; 1 <3 Rindon (April) (No. 241). 

 Apparently uew for Hainan. 



95. Phalacrocorax carbo (V sinensis). 



Phalacrocurax carbu Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 49:; (Hoihow). 



Hoihow, Tingan, Mt. Wuchi (May, Jaly, August, September, November) 

 (No. 220). 



It is difficult to say if an eastern subspecies can be recognised. The individual 

 variation is great, bnt it seems as if Indian and (Chinese birds were smaller. 



96. Sula leucogastra (Bodd.). 



Sula sula Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 492. 



Swinhoe saw specimens near Tingan. 



07. Pelecanus philippensis (Gm,). 

 Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 492. 



Hoihow (Hartlaub). 



08. Otus lempiji umbratilis (Swinh.).* 



[Scnjis lempiji Horsfield, Trans. Linn. S<u-, Lnrnt. xiii. p. 140 (1821. — Java !)■] 

 Ephialites nmhrutilix Swinhoe, Ibis 1870. p. .'i42 (Hainan). 

 Scojts lempiji Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 488 (Kiungchau). 



<J Utoshi, March 19il3 (No. 45). 



6 (J? Hoihow, February, March 1002, November 1903 (No. 45). 

 Namro, March 1903 (No. 45). 



$ Secha, April 1002 (No. 45). 



41 <J? Liudon, March 1003 (No. 45). 



The differences of Otus Irmp/Ji innbratili.t have been very well described by 

 Dr. Sharpe as long ago as 1875, in the second volume of the Catalogue of Birds, 

 pp. 93-4. Comparing our Hainan series with a number of O. lempiji lempiji from 

 Java and Borneo, it is evident that iimhrutilix (lifters from the latter by being 

 larger, more heavily vermiculated, and generally more greyish. Mr. Grant {I.e.) 

 united umbratilis with lempiji because, as he said, the tyj)e " resembles dark Indian 

 examples of (>. lempiji and is perfectly similar to s])ecimeus of 0. lempiji from 

 India, Assam." He apparently overlooked that (>. lempiji was described from Java. 



* About the generic name o! the " Scops-owls ' cf. Auk x.x, p. 273-5 and Bull. Amer. Mm., x.xiii. p. 334. 



