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ova no larger than No. 5 shot, so that it is apparently a late 

 breeder. La Touche has a young bird procured up the 

 Yuen Fu on August 28th. 



Two eggs, said to belong to this species, were brought 

 to us by our men from Central Fohkien, but are very 

 different from those described by La Touche from Kuatun. 

 They are blotched, not marbled like the Kuatun eggs. 

 The markings are much more numerous and darker, beiug 

 darkish brown and drab-grey over underlying marks of 

 bluish grey. They measure 122 x "90 and 1*10 X - 8G in. 



Harpactes yamakanensis Rickett. 



No doubt this bird breeds in the Province, but we have 

 no examples of its eggs. It is not uncommon in Central 

 Fohkien in winter. Our collectors did not meet with it 

 when in that district in April and May. 



Cuculus canorus Linn. 



Cuculus intermedins Vahl : La Touche, Ibis, 1900, p. 45. 

 Not uncommon, especially the latter, about Foochow in 

 spring. We have, however, no eggs of either species*. 



Cacomantis merulinus Scop. 



A summer- visitor to Amoy, but has only once occurred to 

 our knowledge at Foochow ('Ibis/ 1903, p. 217). 



Coccystes coromandus (Linn.) : Ibis, 1900, p. 46. 

 Our collector came across quite a number of individuals 

 in Central Fohkien in May. 



EUDYNAMIS HONOBATA Blyth. 



During La Touche's first stay at Foochow (1883-87) the 

 Koel was not noticed ; it is now a regular summer-visitor. 

 Rickett' s first specimen was obtained in 1893. 



A female shot on August 5th had one ovum more than 

 half an inch in diameter and another about one-third of an 

 inch. 



* We have on three or four occasions obtained 

 doubt those of one of these Cuckoos in nests taken by our men, but it lias 

 been impossible to identify them. 



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