46 Mr. R. Swinhoe un the Ornithology 



87. EuspiZA suLPHURATA (Tcmm.). 

 Seen once at Hongkong. 



88. Melophus lath ami (Gray). The Macao Sparrow of 

 Shawns 'Zoology.' 



In excessive numbers about Hongkong and Macao. The 

 males are at least two years in completing their mature dress. 



89. Alauda ccelivox, Swinh. 



Common in all open country that abounds in corn or pasture 

 land ; specially abundant near Macao. 



90. Picus MAJOR? Cantonese, " Shu-kai'^ (Tree-fowl). 



This male specimen, which looks very like the European spe- 

 cies, was brought to me alive at Canton. On a previous occa- 

 sion I received a pair from Mr. Holt at Foochow. The one now 

 enclosed to Mr. Sclater measured, when fresh, 9f in. ; wing 5|, 

 tail 3 1, expanse of wing 14^. Bill along culmen 1| in., from 

 point to commissure 1^; of a deep lead-colour, lighter on the 

 gonys and at the base. Inside of mouth flesh-coloured. Legs 

 and claws deep leaden. Irides brownish carmine*. 



Testicles over iin. long, oval, and pure white; left one rather 

 longer. Gizzard heart-shaped, not muscular, -^-^ in. long ; epithe- 

 lium fixed, with close longitudinal rugae ; containing remains of 

 beetles and minute pieces of rotten wood. Intestines 10 in. long, 

 rather thick, with no «8eca. 



91. CucuLUS TENUiROSTRis, Gray. Cantonese, " Pun-Zow- 

 shooeij." 



Very common and noisy in the city of Canton. 



92. EuDYNAMYs ORiENTALis (Liuu.). Coxiione^e," To-keun." 

 A figure occurs in Shaw's 'Zoology,' 1815, vol.ix. pt.l. p. 103, 



under the term "Cuculus mindanensis," which is undoubtedly 

 the female of the Canton bird ; but it is marked " male," and 



* This specimen agrees well with the bird figured by Mr. Gould in his 

 ' Birds of Asia' as Picus cabanisi. According to M. Malherbe, however, 

 this species is not his P. cabanisi, but P. gouldi. See Monogr. Picid. 

 pi. 17. p. 62 ; but the distinctions between P. cabanisi, P. mandarinus, and 

 P. gouldi, as there given, seem rather fine. We certainly doubt the fact 

 of three species so nearly allied occurring in one country.— P. L. S. 



