194 Mr. J. D. D. La Touclie on the 



29. Henicurus guttatus Gould, 



This pretty Forktail is not an uncommon resident at 

 Kuatun, whence our collectors have procured us some twenty 

 skins, but we have not yet found the nest. I have seen this 

 bird high above Kuatun, and in winter it probably seeks 

 the lower valleys o£ the range. 



Four males average : culmen 0*80, wing 4"37, tail 5*80, 

 tarsus 1*15 inch. Two females average: culmen 0'80, wing 

 4'05, tail 5'30, tarsus 1"15 inch. A male shot last spring 

 measured 10*7 inches total leogth. Two females shot last 

 spring measured 10 inches total length. An apparently 

 young bird, dated " Kuatun, 27.9.96,'^ has the dorsal 

 spots very small, and shows two partly white feathers on 

 the throat and neck. Another, dated *' Kuatun, 2.10.96,'^ 

 is in full moult. 



30. Henicurus schistaceus Hodgs. 



Distributed over the mountainous parts of Fohkien. We 

 have a few skins from Kuatun, and one nest with eggs, 

 taken there by our collectors on the 17th April, 1897. The 

 nest is of moss outwardly, the back wall being very thin. 

 The inner cup is strong and composed of fine red-brown 

 fibre (probably coir), with a good lining of skeleton-leaves. 

 The shape of the cup is oval. Inner diameter 3x4 inches ; 

 outer diameter 4^ x 6 inches ; depth of cup 1| inch ; height 

 of front wall 2| inches. There were four incubated eggs, 

 one of which is marked. The shape of these eggs is ovate. 

 The ground-colour is pinkish white ; two eggs are sparsely 

 covered with irregular-shaped spots of jiale reddish ; in the 

 third the markings are larger and in the form of splashes, 

 with large underlying blotches or splashes of a pale reddish 

 lilac, which form a cap on the large end of the egg. Two 

 of these eggs measure 0*89 x 0*65 and 0-87 X 0-63 inch. 



We have young from Kuatun taken from the nest and 

 dated May 1896, and 8th May 1897. In these the top 

 and sides of the head and the back are olive-grey, the lesser 

 wing-coverts edged with the same. The throat is white, 

 each feather edged with grey. The breast-feathers have a 



