206 :\rr. J. D. D. La Touclic on the 



The only other note that I have on the breeding of P. tro- 

 chiloides is unfortunately of very little use. I was going 

 down from the grasslands to the valley of Upper Kuatun on 

 the 16th May, when 1 noticed, in a bamboo-plantation near 

 a tea-field, a P. trochiloides whose behaviour showed that it 

 had a nest in the vicinity. As I had no time to watch it I 

 left Wang Wang there, telling him to try and find the nest. 

 When he came home he told me that he had found the nest, 

 but, as it contained young too small to preserve, he had left 

 it alone. When, two days later, he returned to it, the nest 

 had been destroyed. This nest, it appears, was on the ground, 

 between two stones uuder a tea-bush. 



42. Phylloscopus superciliosus (Gm.). 



Kuatun examples dated April, May, and September, 



43. Phylloscopus proregulus (Pall.). 



Kuatun skins are dated April, May, and September. This 

 and the preceding species uo doubt winter in N.W. Fohkien. 



44. LusciNiOLA scHWARzi (Radde). 



One example shot near Kuatun in autumn, 1896. 



45. ACROCEPHALUS AGRICOLA (Jcrd.). 



A pair was shot in a marshy hollow on the grasslands 

 above Kuatun (alt. about 4500 feet) on the 19th May, 1897. 

 I went over the same ground this year, but did not see any 

 more. 



46. Tribura russula (Slater). 



This bird is not uncommon on the grasslands above 

 Kuatun from about 4500 to 6000 feet. I saw three birds of 

 this species on the loth April last, one of which I shot. 

 This bird, after flying out of the grass, ran along the ground 

 and hopped on to a stone, where I shot it. The other two 

 seen on the same day also flew out of the long grass, making 

 more or less short flights when put up. I believe that a 

 small brown bird seen flying down a grassy hill-slope was 

 also of this species, and on that day I heard a long-continued 

 and loud bird-song, which on being described to one of our 

 native hunters was pronounced by him to be the song of 



