collected in South China. o77 



residence as the hills ia the west of Hunan and the plateau 

 of Kwei-chu and Yunnan. 



"We had travelled from Hankau to Bhamo^ about 2360 

 miles, of which about 880 were by water, and the rest, 

 1480, by land. Excluding halts, we managed 13^ miles a 

 day by boat against the current and with numberless rapids, 

 over each of which it required from fifteen to twenty trackers 

 to haul the boat ; and by road we averaged 18^ miles a day, 

 including halts. We were 130 days actually on the march 

 by river and road. During that portion of the journey 

 between Kwei-yang and Bhamo, we went up and down over 

 2000 feet more than twenty times ; while on eight occasions 

 we went down 3000 feet and up again a similar height in a 

 distance of only 10 miles. These figures speak for them- 

 selves, and give some idea of the very mountainous cliaracter 

 of the Kweichu and Yunnan provinces. 



" There is a fine field for the scientific explorer and fur the 

 artist and sportsman in Hunan and Kweichu; the rivers of 

 the former province would delight the fisherman's heart. ^' 



Capt. Wingate's collection includes examples of three 

 species hitherto undescribed, viz. : Phylloscopus subaffiids, 

 Siva wingatii, and Sitta yimnanensis ; and of a like number of 

 species not represented in the British Museum Collection, viz.: 

 Malacias desgodinsi, Proparus bieti, and Palaornis salvadorii. 

 Among other rarities included in the present collection, 

 I would draw especial attention to a pair of the splendid 

 Merganser Merganser squamatus, figured on Plate XII. by 

 Mr. G. E. Lodge, and hitherto known only from a young male 

 described by Gould in 1864; the rare Babbling-Thrush, 

 Babax lanceolatus ; an equally scarce Hill-Tit, Sch<jeniparus 

 genestieri ; and, lastly, the hitherto unknown male of the 

 rare Kestrel Cerchneis saturata. 



I now give a list of the species of which specimens were 

 obtained by Capt. Wingate, and add the exact localities and 

 some of the collector's field-notes. 



1. COKVUS TORQUATUS. 



Corvus torquatus Less. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. iii. 



p. 21 (1877); David & Oustal. Ois. Chine, p. 368 (1877). 



