of Hongkong, Macao, and Canton. 39 



55. Pycnonotus occipitalis, Temm. Cantonese, " Pak- 

 taou long J" 



An abundant resident. 



56. Pycnonotus chrysorrhoides (Lafr.). 



These are of a more roving disposition than the foregoing, and 

 may often be met with in small parties on the hills, flying one 

 after another from bush to bush. They have a loud chattering 

 note, uttered while roving about ; but the male at times, seated 

 quietly on a branch, gives vent to a succession of sweet notes, 

 some of which are very rich and full. I observed numbers of 

 these Bulbuls, as well as the preceding, on the Tallow-tree {Stil- 

 lingia sebifera), feeding on its ripe berries. 



57. Pycnonotus jocosus (Linn.). 



This is evidently the same bird as that found in Bengal, and 

 is described as Twdus sinensis in Shaw's ' Zoology,' from a 

 Chinese drawing. It is not found in either Hongkong or Macao, 

 but is very abundant in the neighbourhood of Canton, where 

 numbers of them were to be seen in April, springing about over 

 the large red flowers of the gigantic leafless Bombax malaba- 

 ricum. They were at once to be distinguished by their peculiar 

 voices ; but their lofty curled and pointed crests gave them a very 

 marked appearance. 



58. Tchitrea principalis (Temm.). 



This bird I cannot help thinking is not T. principalis, but a 

 distinct species *. A female that I sent home on a former 

 occasion was pronounced by INIr. G. R. Gray to belong to the 

 Japanese species, but the females in all the species I have seen 

 assimilate in a most remarkable manner. The male I procured 

 in Hongkong I enclose. This is the fourth male I have seen, 

 all resembling one another, and difiering from the description in 

 the ' Fauna Japonica.' The male in that work is thus described : — 

 ' Les plumes du ventre et les couvertures inferieures de ia queue 



examples from the Philippines, as the bird described as 0. acrorhynchus 

 by Vigors (P.Z.S. 1831, p. 97) was from that locality.— P. L. S. 



* I consider this to be the true T. principalis, but I have no Japanese 

 specimens for comparison. — P. L. S. 



