178 Mr. J. D. D. La Touche on the 



4. Geocichla siBiRicA (Pall.). 



We have skins of this Thrush obtained in May, September, 

 and October at Kuatun, where it would seem to be not un- 

 common on migration, especially during the autumn. Only 

 two examples were procured during the last expedition — a 

 fine male, shot on the 11th May on Mount David, some 

 6000 feet above sea-level, and a female brought to me on the 

 16th of May from a valley a few miles from Kuatun. 



5. Geocichla varia (Pall.). 



Two examples shot on the 4th and 23rd of April during the 

 last expedition do not differ from specimens from Formosa 

 and Foochow, nor from those collected on previous trips to 

 Kuatun, where this bird appears to winter. I am indebted 

 to Mr. G. F. Milller, of the Imperial Maritime Customs 

 of China, for an example shot near Pakhoi in South China. 



6. Myiophoneus c^ruleus (Scoj).). 



A very common bird on the torrents near Kuatun. 



Our collectors told us that in 1897 they found there quite 

 a number of nests, but they appear to have begun to look 

 for them too late, nearly all the nests containing young. 

 They, however, brought us back two nests with one egg 

 (others broken in taking the nest) and four eggs. The 

 former was taken on the 19th of May. It is a somewhat 

 oblong cup, composed of moss, with a first lining of dead 

 leaves, then tendrils, and lastly bamboo-leaves, a few fine roots 

 and tendrils holding the egg-cavity and the rim of the nest 

 together. There is no moss at the back of the nest, where 

 it rested against the rock it was taken from. The inner 

 diameter of the nest is 3^ X 5^ inches, part of the egg-cavity 

 receding under the back rim. The depth of the egg-cavity 

 is 2 inches, the outer diameter 7x9 inches, and the outer 

 depth about 4 inches. The egg belonging to this nest is 

 ovate in shape, with a very square apex. It measures 

 1*45 X 1 inch. Its colour is a light and dull stone-green, 

 with a few specks and partly smudged spots of Indian red, 

 and it has a tinge of red on the large end, where the spots 

 are more numerous. 



