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18. Alcedo bengalensis (Lath.). 



I never met the little King of the Shrimp in my rambles 

 about Chefoo ; but native birdcatchers occasionally brought 

 live examples. Figured in the ]\IS. Illustrations as the Tsuy- 

 cheo (M.D. 11197, 10794), or Tiu-quoise bird. A group of 

 five of Eurystomus orientalis is figured in the same Illustra- 

 tions, but without name. 



19. Hoopoe, Upupa epops, L. 



I saw a Hoopoe in a cemetery at the foot of the hills, where 

 it probably had its nest. In flying up to a tree it threw a 

 summersault. On the 19th May Mr. Crascmann sent me a 

 female that had died in his aviary. Native name Poo Kuh- 

 neao (M.D. 8661, 6564, 7946), or Grain-distributing Bird. 

 He had procured it from a native birdcatcher only a few days 

 before. A "\A'ren is figui-ed in the MS. Illustrations^ but 

 without Chinese name. 



20. Eastern Reed-Thrush. Calamodytaorientalis (T.&cS.) . 

 I know of no reed-abounding marshy places at Chefoo such 



as we have at every other port I have been stationed at. Hence 

 at this place there was no such cover as this summer visitor 

 loves, and the specimens that disported on Lighthouse Island 

 were evidently migrants passing over to more suitable loca- 

 lities across the Gulf of Pechelee. Mr. Campbell procured 

 three or four specimens of both sexes in the beginning of May, 

 and one or two early in June. 



21. MoLUCCAX Smoky Reed-Thrush. Calamodyta insularis 

 (Wall.). 



Two males and one female of this Reed-Thrush were pro- 

 cured bv ^Ir. Campbell on Lighthouse Island on the 3rd 

 June. They were severally well developed and ready for 

 breeding, and could not have had very far to go for their sum- 

 mer quarters. In my " Revised Catalogue of the Birds of 

 China" (P. Z. S. 1871, p. 352) I mention that this Moluccan 

 species occunx-d at Amoy in numbers in May. Twenty days 

 later they were passing Chefoo ; and probably many sum- 

 mer in the Corea. The allied C. fasciolatus, G. R. Gray, 

 did not turn up at Chefoo. I stated before (/. c.) that one of 



