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



contiuuiug meanwlale to feed them. The remains of this 

 nest consist of a pad of very fine roots woven and matted 

 together; a leg of a grasshopper and a feather of a young 

 bird still adhered to the pad when we received it. The 

 two eggs, ovate in shape_, measure I'Ol by 074 inch and 

 1 by 0-76 inch. Tliey are of a pale pinkish yellow freckled 

 with a darker shade of the same colour. The other nest, 

 found on the 21st May, contained three young and an 

 addled egg. 



8. MoNTicoLA GULARis (Swiuhoe). 



An adult male was shot by our men at Kuatun on the 

 9th May, 1897. We have not yet obtained this bird at 

 Eoochow. This Rock-Thrush is common at Newchwang 

 in spring. 



9. Garrulax picTicoLLis Swinhoc. 



Although we obtained breeding examples at Kuatun 

 during the last expedition, we failed to find the nest. A 

 large flock was met on the 20th March in a wood close to 

 the river in the Kienyang district, so that this bird may be 

 said to be an inland species occurring in mountainous wooded 

 country at all altitudes, probably all over South-west 

 Chekiang, Western Fohkien, and N.E. Kwangtung. 



10. Tbochalopteron canorum (L.). 



I procured two nests of this bird, each containing four 

 eggs, on 19th May : one clutch was hard set, the other fresh. 

 The hunter was unable to secure the parent birds, but I have 

 no reason to believe that he was mistaken. The nests are 

 large cups, of rough exterior, made of twigs, &c., the egg- 

 cavity in one measuring 3^ inches in diameter by 2^ inches 

 in depth, and in the other 3 inches in depth by 3^ inches in 

 diameter. 



The four eggs of the fresh clutch are of a rather broad 

 ovate in shape. Three measure 1*04 inch by 0*82, and 

 one 1'05 inch by 0"83. The colour is uniform greenish tur- 

 quoise-blue. The texture is not very smooth and is slightly 

 pitted, but it is smoother than that of a clutch of four eggs 

 brought to me in May 1897 at Peling, near Foochow, and 



