THE IBIS 



SEVENTH SERIES. 



No. XVIIT. APRIL 1899. 



XIII. — Notes on the Birds of North-west Fohkien^. 

 By J. D. D. La Touche. 



Monsieur l'Abbb Armand David was the first naturalist to 

 visit KuatuKj a hamlet situated in the Bohea Mountains in 

 the N.W. of Folikien. He spent 52 days (from the lOtli of 

 October to the 1st of December, 1873) in that interesting 

 locality, and, although prostrated by sickness during the 

 greater part of his stay, managed to make extensive and 

 valuable collections of the fauna of N.W. Folikien. The 

 most notable of his discoveries were the curious Trjphlomys 

 cinereus ; the huge rat Mus edwardsi, and another large rat 

 lately described under the name of Mus latouchii ; and the 

 three beautiful birds, lanthocincla berthemyi^ Pomatorhinus 

 swmhoii, and Trochalopteron milni. He also re-discovered 

 Cabot's Tragopan, now known to inhabit the high wooded 

 mountains of N.W. Folikien. 



Since Pere David's time no attempt had been made to 

 explore the Bohca Mountains until November 1895, when 

 Mr. Rickett and I, thinking Kuatun might be reached from 

 Foochow, sent our collector Wang Wang, with some of 

 his family, on an expedition up the river, instructing liim 

 to get to Kuatun if possible. The results ofthis trial trip 



* For former papers on this subject see Ibis, 1892, pp. 400-4.'^0 

 477-503; ]894, pp. 215-220; 1896, pp. 489-495; 1897, pp. 169-170, 

 pi. iv., pp. 600-610; 1898, pp. 328-333. 



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