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a nest with eggs at Peling as already recorded ; but that is the 

 only one obtained by us near Foochow. 



Ianthocincla cinereiceps (Styan) : Ibis, 1899, p. 181. 

 This bird also breeds in the Ching Fung Ling district, 

 where our collectors found nests with young. 



Pomatorhinus stridulus Swinhoe : Ibis, 1887, p. 218; 

 1899, p. 183. 



We have young birds shot in the Yuen Fu Valley in May. 



A nest obtained in Central Fohkien was composed of 

 bamboo-leaves and fern -fronds, lined with fine dry grass. 

 It was probably damaged in the taking, as it was a flimsy cup 

 without the usual dome. The native who took it said that it 

 was just as he found it, and Flume gives instances of birds of 

 this genus sometimes building open nests (' Nests and Eggs/ 

 vol. i. pp. 81, 83, & 88). It contained two eggs, measuring 

 •92 x "67 and -89 X '69 in. : they were ovate in shape, somewhat 

 blunt at the smaller end ; pure white, smooth, and slightly 

 glossy in texture, with very thin shells. 



Alcippe hueti David : Ibis, 1899, p. 185. 



Breeds on the hills and mountains of the Province. 



A nest taken by Rickett's collectors in Central Fohkien 

 contained four very abnormally-coloured eggs. The skin of 

 the old bird, shot from the nest, places their identity beyond 

 doubt. These four eggs (taken on April 29th) are pink, 

 somewhat thickly marked with specks and short streaks of 

 darker pink. Two of them have a well-marked ring round 

 the larger end, in another the ring is still more strongly 

 marked, wbile the fourth has no trace of a ring; they 

 measure "76 x *56 in. Two other clutches obtained at the 

 same time are normally coloured and average "75 x *58 in. 

 The nests are much the same as those already described by 

 La Touche. 



Two broods are apparently reared in a season. 



ScHffiNIPARUS BRUNNEUS (Gould) . 



A common resident species in suitable localities. 



We have, however, only once obtained its nest and eggs. 



