414 Mr. J. D. D. La 'rowche on the 



with dark tip; legs dark flesh. Total length 6-85 inches. 

 Wang Wang shot one at Swatow on the 25th April, 1887. 

 We have not as yet noticed this bird at Foochow. 



68. Oreocorys sylvanus (Hodgs.). 



Corydalla kiang sinensis Dav. & Oust. Oiseaux de la Chine, 

 p. 311, pi. xxxvii. 



Rhabdochlamys dejeani Oust. Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1897, 

 no. 6, p. 208. 



The comparison of several specimens of 0. sylvanus shot 

 in Fohkien with the type of C kiangsinensis shows the latter 

 to be a very dark example of the former species. It was 

 shot in Angust and is probably a young bird. There is also 

 no doubt that Rh. dejeani is the same, as examples of this 

 bird cannot be distinguished from our specimens of 0. syl- 

 vanus. O. sylvanus therefore proves to be somewhat widely 

 distributed in China. It is doubtless a resident on the 

 hills of Fohkien, and it is not uncommon on the grass- 

 lands above Kuatun. 



^ . Foochow, 14.2.96. Iris dark brown ; upper mandible 

 livid purple ; lower mandible pinkish flesh, with dark point ; 

 mouth and gape yellow ; legs light flesh. Total length 7 25 

 inches. The stomach contained a grasshopper and small 

 insects. 



(^, Kuatun, 1.4.98. Iris dark brown; upper mandible 

 dark livid brown ; lower mandible pinkish, with dark point, 

 its base and the gape yellow ; legs flesh. Total length 

 7"55 inches. 



69. Pycnoxotus sinensis (Gm.). 



We obtained at Kuatun three examples of this lowland 

 species. It is, however, a rare bird up there, only a few 

 coming up from the lowlands for the breeding-season. One 

 of the specimens obtained on this trip has the white of the 

 head divided down the centre of the occiput by a single 

 black feather. 



70. Pycnonotus xanthorrhous Anderson. 



A few examples Avere shot by our men near Shaowufu in 

 December, 1895. 



