On a Collection of Birds from Foochow. 2J5 



resort. Humming-birds are numerous, there being two 

 kinds on the island, viz. Eustejihanus fernandensis and 

 E. galeritus. Fish are very plentiful ; any number of cray- 

 fish may be caught ; and there is splendid covert for game 

 if introduced. 



In concluding these notes, I regret exceedingly that they 

 are so meagre, and that they principally refer to sea-birds, 

 which is not surprising, considering that my life leads me 

 mostly amongst them. It is true that in the necessarily 

 short visits to many places I have been unable to collect or 

 make observations except in a cursory manner ; but I still 

 reproach myself with many opportunities lost, and I would 

 especially warn any one collecting against procrastination in 

 shooting specimens. Nothing in this case is so fatal as to 

 put oflF to to-morrow what can be done to-day. 



I have to tender my sincere thanks to JNIr. Howard 

 Saunders for kindly revising and assisting me in these 

 notes *. 



XXI. — On a Collection of Birds from Foochow. 

 By F. W. Styan, F.Z.S. 



The following notes refer to part of a collection made by 

 Mr. J. D. de la Touche, between December 1883 and 

 September 1886, in the neighbourhood of Foochow, south 

 China. The portion sent home consists entirely of land- 

 birds, and contains no game-birds. Pigeons, Crows, Jays, 

 Starlings, or Finches except Buntings — families which, 

 together with the water-birds, will perhaps be examined 

 and described at a later date. The cases already received 

 contain 828 skins, belonging to 143 species, and comjjrising 

 five which have not hitherto been recorded from the mainland 

 of China. Of these, Nisa'etus fasciatus and Haliaetus leuco- 

 gaster are entirely new to the Chinese avifauna ; Graucalus 

 rex-pineti and Alcippe morrisonia have only been found in 

 Formosa ; and Hemixus castanonotus was supposed to be 



* [The indebtedness is on the other side, for an interesting collection of 

 specimens of most of the species mentioned in this paper. — H. S.] 



