328 Messrs, C. B. Rickett and J. D. D. La Touchc on 



XXX. — Further Observations on the Birds of the Province 

 of Fohkien, China *. By C. B. Rickett and J. D. D. 

 La Touche. With Notes by W. R. Ogilvie Grant. 



[Messrs. Rickett and La Touche send me for com- 

 iQunication to ' The Ibis ' the following further observations 

 on the birds of Fohkien, to which they have paid so 

 much attention. I have added, a few necessary notes. — 

 W. R. O. G.] 



1. Cheltdon cashmeriensis Gould; Sharpe, Cat. B, Brit. 

 Mus. X. p. 90 (1885). 



[A female of this species was shot at Kuatuu on tlie 

 13th of April. This is apparently the first time it has been 

 procured in China. — W. R. O. G.] 



2. AcROCEPHALus AGRicoLA (Jcrdon) ; Seebohm, Cat. B. 

 Brit. Mus. v. p. 105 (1881).] 



[I have received an adult male and female of this Reed- 

 Warbler obtained at Kuatun on the 19th of May, 1897. 

 They have the upper parts of the darker brown characteristic 

 of the worn plumage in the breeding-season. Li freshly- 

 moulted examples the upper parts are often of a warm rufous 

 brown, but as the feathers become abraded the rufous tinge 

 disappears. — W. R. O. G.] 



3. Cettia brunnescens (Hume). 



Horeites brunnescens Hume, Ibis, 1872, p. 109. 



Cettia sp. Grant, Ibis, 1897, pp. 601, 608. 



[Messrs. Rickett and La Touche forward four more ex- 

 amples of this bird, which appear to be identical with 

 Indian examples of C. brunnescens, though the yellow on 

 the underparts extends a little further up the belly and 

 sides.— W. R. O. G.] 



4. Cettia sinensis La Touche, Bull. B. O. C. vii. p. xxxvii 

 (1898). 



Cettia fortipes La Touche, Ibis, 1892, p. 417 (Swatow?) ; 



* For former papers on this subject see Ibis, 1892, pp. 400-430, 477- 

 503 ; 1894, pp. 215-22G ; 1896, pp. 489-495 ; 1897, pp. 169-176, pi. iv., 

 pp. 600-610. 



