Nesting of Birds in Fohkien. 3 1 



This species is a common resident in the Province wherever 

 there are streams flowing among rocks and boulders. 



Zosterops simplex Swinhoe : Ibis, 1898, p. 367 ; 1899, 

 p. 431. 



Common and resident on the low grounds, but apparently 

 rare on the higher levels. 



The nests vary a good deal in the amount of materials 

 employed in the construction, some being little more than a 

 frail network of fine dry grass bound together and secured 

 to the supporting twig by cobwebs, while others are quite 

 substantial little cups of moss, fine dry grass, roots, and 

 fibres. They are either slung like a hammock in the fork of 

 a twig or attached to the side of one. They measure about 

 2 inches in diameter. 



The eggs are pale greenish blue, and average '60 x *47 in. 

 There are three or four in a clutch. 



Some caged birds of this species kept by La Touche 

 became grey above in the place of green ; the reddish 

 flanks turned deeper in shade, while the yellow throat faded 

 almost to white. 



Chloropsis lazulina (Swinhoe). 



Hypsipetes leucocephalus (Gm.). 



Hemixus canipennis Seebohm. 



Spizixus semitorques Swinhoe. 



Iole holti (Swinhoe). 



The five above-mentioned species are all more or less 

 common in Central Fohkien in winter, and some of them, if 

 not all, most probably nest in that district. 



Pycnonotus sinensis (Gm.) : Ibis, 1898, p. 366. 



This common resident appears to be mostly confined to 

 the low levels. It builds in bushes, low trees, hedges, low 

 bamboos, and creepers on walls. The nest is never far from 

 the ground, and is composed of a variety of materials, viz., 

 fine twigs, dry grass, dead and skeleton leaves, roots, moss, 

 feathers, paper, &c, lined with fine dry grass, roots, hair, 

 pine-needles, and often the seeding tops of " sword -grass/' 

 Some nests are composed entirely of the latter, and are then 



