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ramifications, is all nestled in one group of handsome trees, the 

 pines of which are of a gigantic size, and larger than any I have 

 seen elsewhere in China. I was in great hopes of meeting here 

 some of the Woodpecker family ; but a breeze had now sprung 

 up, and scarcely a bird was anywhere to be seen. A few Tree 

 Pipits [Anthus agilis) occurred, and one Cuckoo [Cuculus striatus), 

 the latter in young plumage, and probably a stray bird late in 

 its southerly migration. As some of us were in a botanical mood, 

 the rich-clad hill repaid our ramble ; but in an ornithological 

 point of view the higher spots were singularly deficient. 



I subjoin some notes on a few birds procured in this ramble^ 

 of which I have not hitherto given notices from examples in 

 the flesh. 



Garrulus ornatus {seu bisj)ecularis) 6 , Dec. 9, 1861. 



Length 13| inches; wing 7 ; tail 6, of 12 feathers. Bill deep 

 neutral tint, with pale tip, and ochreous bases to both mandibles. 

 Inside of mouth olive-black, with paler tongue. Iris pearly, with 

 a deep-purple outer edge ; skin encircling the eye light pur- 

 plish brown, with a deep purple-black inner edge. Ear-covert 

 larger than the eye, irregular oval, with the operculum slit perpen- 

 dicularly through the middle. Legs and toes light ochreous 

 flesh-colour, with light-brown claws. 



Screeched harshly when wounded. 



Dissection. — Heart '8 by "6 in. Liver, both lobes about 1 inch 

 long ; right rather lower down, and rounded at end. Each sterno- 

 tracheal muscle divides on its way down the trachea, and ends 

 at the peak in two lobes ; the membrane between trachea and 

 bronchi divided transversely by a thin pin-shaped cartilage "3 long. 

 Trachea gradually contracting downwards. (Esophagus with 

 thin semitransparent parietes, dilatable to '7. Proventriculus 

 much granulated, "6 long, thick, and gradually enlarging towards 

 stomach. Gizzard nearly round, 1'3 long, 1*1 broad, and '8 

 deep, with rather small roundish tendons, whence radiate strong 

 muscles. Epithelium thick, ochreous, furrowed deeply in all 

 directions, and filled with entire black seeds of some mountain 

 berry, the soft parts of the same, large siliceous grits, and 

 scanty remains of field-bugs. Intestine 21^ in. long, varying in 



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