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The present species is,, so far as we know, confined to the 

 southern portion of India. Dr. Jerdon says it is found in 

 the forests of Malabar, generally on high trees, and in pairs, 

 both above and below the Ghats. He also procured it in 

 the forests in the Chanda district. South-east of Nagpore. 

 Capt. Butler (Str. F. 1880, p. 385) observes that it is rare 

 in the Deccan and South Mahratta country, occurring 

 sparingly along the Sahyadri range as far north as Khandala. 

 Mr. Laird procured it in the forests north of Belgaum and 

 in North Kanara. Mr. Davidson (Str. ¥. 1883, p. 354) says 

 that " in the Wynaad and Mysore country it is not a common 

 bird, and found in pairs or parties sparingly distributed. It 

 ascends the slopes of the hills to about 3000 feet.^^ 



It is included in Mr. Hume^s ' List of the Birds of the 

 Travancore Hills,^ having been obtained at Mynall by M. 

 Bourdillon. 



XXX. — On a Collection of Birds from Central China. 

 By Henry Seebohm. 



I AM indebted to the kindness of Mr. John M. Mitchell for 

 allowing me to examine a collection of birds made in the 

 valley of the Yang-tse-kiang river, in Central China, by Mr. 

 Frederick Styan. They Avere principally obtained near Kiu- 

 kiang, 450 miles up the river, and on the Lushan range of 

 mountains, which lie directly behind Kiukiang, at a distance 

 of five or six miles as the crow flies. These mountains run 

 in a south-westerly direction for twenty miles or more, and 

 the highest peak is about 5000 feet above the level of the 

 sea. The hills are broken and rugged, and, for the most 

 part, covered with dense scrub nearly breast-high. The 

 highest range is covered with long coarse grass, and a few 

 stunted pines creep up to the summit ; but up to about 2000 

 feet the pine-forests cover extensive areas. Mingled with 

 the pines, but not, as a rule, extending quite so high, are 

 large tracts of bamboos, amongst which are sprinkled mag- 

 nolias, camphor-trees, camellias, laurels, azaleas, &c. 



