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August 23rd. — Another typhoon. Many birds were flying 

 about distressed by the gale. A smallish Tern {Sterna hirundo ?) 

 and a Gull-like bird, which I took to be a Stercorarius, driven 

 in. All the country saturated with rain. Hermit-crabs [Pagurtis) 

 in shells of Buccinum, sp., climbing up bushes and rocks some 

 way up the hills, and hanging three or four feet from the 

 ground, apparently to avoid the damp. Saw the first Willow- 

 Wren, Phylloscojius sylvicultrix, Swinh., the first Lanius lucio- 

 nensis, Strickl., and the first Reguloides superciliosus (Gmel.). 



September 2nd, — While wandering about the plain in the 

 early morning, I watched several of Phylloscopus sylvicultrix 

 and LanivLs lucionensis. I also observed a Thrush-like bird 

 sitting quietly on the branch of a tree, which at first sight I 

 took for an Artamus. I shot it, and to my delight found it to 

 be the young of Turdus albiceps, Swinh. (Ibis, 1864, p. 363), 

 the old birds of which new species I had before procured from 

 the Tamsuy mountains*. It appeared to be quite alone. Here 

 is a description of it : — 



Turdus albiceps, nobis (typ. spec, of adult procured at Tamsuy 

 March 15, 1864) : bird of the year. Length 8 inches, wing 4-36, 

 tail 3. Iris brown. Bill yellowish, washed with olive-brown ; 

 at rictus and inside of mouth orange-yellow. Head and neck 

 olive-brown, mottled with ochre. A broad white streak runs 

 over each eye, nearly meeting at the occiput. Upper parts 

 blackish-olive, the coverts streaked with reversed arrow-heads of 

 ochre; the dorsals and upper tail-coverts but lightly streaked. 

 Primaries and winglet black, with paler edges. Secondaries also 

 black, washed on their outer webs with blackish-olive. Tail 

 of twelve mucronate rectrices, black, washed with olive. Under 

 parts orange-bufF, speckled and mottled with olive, washed on 

 the sides with olive and grey. Throat and vent dull white. 

 Sides of breast deep olive, with broad ochreous centres, often 

 shaped like arrow-heads. Under wings and tail blackish-grey. 

 Legs and claws bright brownish-yellow. 



* [Through the kindness of M, Jules Yerreaux we are enabled to give 

 a figure (Plate V.) of the adult male of this tiue species, discovered by 

 Mr, Swinhoe iu March 1804, and described by him, as referred to above, 

 in the former series of 'The Ibis.' — Ed.] 



