(240) 



2i!S. Phylloscopus tenellipes Swinh. 



Phyllnncopus tenellipes Swinhoe, llih ii. p. 53 (iSliO — Ainoy) ; Hartert, Vwj. I'al. Fauna i. p. OIJ. 



<? Mt. Wnohi, 1."). xi. I '.hi.-) TNn. 104). 



Tliis sj)ei-iiiien is the first obtained on Hainan. 



229. Phylloscopus goodsoni spec. nov. 



" S " Sonth Hainan, December 22, 1903 (No. 104). 



(J Lei Mnimon, 12. i. 1903 (No. 1(54). —Typo. 



This new form stands between P. trochiloides and P. ricltetti, a species with 

 bright yellow underside, which has erroneously been described as a Cri/ptolopha. 

 Its nnder-surface, instead of being bright yellow as in ficketti, or whitish with a 

 greyish tinge and pale yellow edges to the feathers, is sulphur-yellow, tinged 

 with olive-greenish along the sides, and indistinctly striated with pale grey. 

 Upperside as in P. trochiloides, while in P. ricketti the two lateral broad lines on 

 the crown are of a deeper black. Wing of the bird from Lei Mnimon 59 mm., 

 that of the one from South Hainan only 54 mm., from which I eonclnde that the 

 latter is wrongly " se.xed." 



I have named this bird after Mr. Arthur Goodson, who has taken mnch 

 interest in the Hainan birds and greatly assisted me in this account, belated as it 

 appears owing to pressure of other work. 



I should not have hesitated to come to the conchision, that Phi/Uoscopus 

 trochiloidi'x and ricketti, connected as they are by this intermediate goodsoni, form 

 various geographical races of one species, but, according to the statements of 

 Mr. La Tonche, both Plii/Uoscopiis trochiloides, and, as he calls it, " Criiptolopha 

 ricketti," breed in the same districts of Fokien (cf. Ibis, 1899, pp. 209 and 425). 

 Therefore — though I almost suspect there is a mistake about this — I cannot at 

 j)resent follow my wicked inclination to reduce these forms to subspecies, and 1 

 cannot say whether goodsoni should be a representative of trochiloides or of ric/cetti, 

 as it stands right in the middle. 



230. Artamus fuscus Vieill. 

 Grant, P. Z. S. 1900. p. 470. 



14 <J? Utoshi, March 1903 (No. 148). 



1 Mt. Wuchi, April 1904 (No. 148). 



All the specimens appear to be somewhat dark, especially on the throat and 

 back, but as they are in more or less worn plumage, too much importance cannot be 

 l)lace(l on the differences in colour. The beaks are also large, bnt some Indian 

 specimens have bills as large. A separation, at the present moment, therefore 

 seems too hazardous. 



231. Tephrodornis pelvica hainanus Grant. 



Tephrodoriiis pehlca Grant, P. Z. .S. I'JOO. p. 47U. 



Tephrodomis hainanus Grant, Abstract Proc. Zoul. Sue. No. 81. p. 18 (March 1910— Hainan). 



2 <?<?, 3 ? ? Secha, April and May 1902 (No. 57). 



5 (J (J, 2 ? ? No-Tai, .September and October 11102 (No. 57). 



Much darker than T. pelfica pelcica from India. The grey of the crown in 

 the males is darker and more ashy ; the back more rufous brown, without the 

 ashy grey tinge of 7'. p. pelvica. Rectrices and wings of a warmer brown, the 

 edges more rufous. Underside as in 7'. p. pelvica. 



