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Athene cuculoides, Jcrdon. 



Canton and Foochow. Very common during summer at the 

 latter place. 



Scops le.aipiji^ Horsfield. 



Canton and Foochow. Mr. Blyth observes that specimens of 

 both this and the last from China are rather larger than those of 

 India. 



DicRURUS ciNERACEUSj Horsfield. 



Common in the vale of Foochow, but not found on the table- 

 land or the hills, where D. macrocercus, Vieill., takes its place. 



CORYDALLA SINENSIS, Bp. ? 



Foochow hills. This is a smaller bird than C. richardi, with 

 comparatively larger bill and legs, and I think is very likely to 

 prove to be Bonaparte's species. The distribution of colours in 

 the two specimens I have is similar to that in the cognate Lark, 

 which latter, by the way, varies considerably in the tone of the 

 ochreous tinge that washes the plumage. 



Enicurus speciosus, Horsfield. 



Pehling hills, Foochow. I never met but one, and that 

 answers so completely to Horsfield's description in the 'Researches 

 in Java,' that I have little doubt in assigning to my bird his 

 specific name. 



POMATORHINUS STRIDULUS, n. sp. 



This small Wren-like species, which Mr. Blyth marks as new, 

 is common on the Pehling hills, Foochow, where I have procured 

 however but one individual. It possesses a long rattling note, 

 which it utters when disturbed in its haunts, and perching close 

 to the intruder, stoops its body to its feet, and throws up its tail 

 at right angles, assuming at such times much the appearance of 

 a Wren. 



Upper mandible of bill brown, lower yellowish. Legs brown, 

 with pale claws. Iris hazel. Upper parts olive-brown with a 

 rufous tinge; the brown on the wings and tail being darker 

 on the inner webs of the feathers. A white streak runs over 

 the eye, and a black one under it, from the nostrils to the ear, 

 which it covers. Beyond these two streaks a chestnut nuchal 



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