Nesting of Birds in Fohkieii. 27 



Parus atriceps Horsf. 



This Tit occurs near Foochow, but is not nearly so common 

 as P. minor. 



A nest with six eggs was taken from a hole in a bank. 

 It was a fairly neat cup, composed externally of a thin layer 

 of moss, and lined with hair, buffalo-wool, and a few feathers 

 felted together. The eggs averaged 65 x # 48 in. ; they were 

 white, spotted with light red. The female was caught on 

 the nest. 



Parus minor T. & S. : Ibis, 1899, p. 401. 



This very common resident nests in all parts of the 

 Province from the plains up to 3000 or 4000 feet on the 

 mountains of the North- West. 



The nest is placed in a hole iu a tree, wall, or bank. One 

 was built in a Chinese grave, the birds entering through a 

 small aperture like a mouse-hole on a level with the ground. 

 The materials used are moss, wool, hair, pigs' bristles, 

 feathers, fine dry grass, roots, and fibres ; these are some- 

 times carelessly arranged in a loose shallow cup or mere 

 hollowed pad ; at other times they are worked up into 

 a firm compact felt. One nest taken near Foochow resembled 

 in shape the toe portion of a bath-slipper. 



On the plains nesting begins about the end of March and 

 two broods are reared in a season. Eggs average 65 x '50 in. ; 

 they are white, spotted and speckled with pale red. 



ACREDULA CONCINNA (Gould). 



Acredula concinna Styan, Ibis, 1891, p. 342; La Touche, 

 Ibis, 1899, p. 403. 



We have not obtained the eggs of this common Tit near 

 Foochow. 



Rickett found a nest in a young pine-tree when Pheasant- 

 shooting up the Yuen Fu River in November, which was 

 similar to the specimen obtained by La Touche at Kuatun. 



Young broods are to be seen early in May. 



Melanochlora sultanea (Hodgson). 



The natives at Yamakan, Central Fohkien, say that this 



