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71. PVCNONOTUS ATRICAPILLUS (Vieill.). 



This Bulbul appears to straggle as far north as North-west 

 Fohkien. I have a specimen from there dated October 

 1896. 



72. Hemixus CANiPKNNis Seebohm. 



This bird is common among the wooded hills of Central and 

 North-west Fohkien. It is abundant about Kuatun. We 

 noticed small flocks, as well as ])aired birds, at the beginning 

 of April, and on the 5th May I saw a bird carrying nesting- 

 materials, I was unable to find any nests during our stay, 

 but a nest and eggs, taken in 1897, said to belong to this 

 bird, were sold to me on our arrival at Kuatun. 



The nest is a cup, composed chiefly of soft moss. The 

 inner diameter is 2'8 inches, the depth of cup 1*6, the outer 

 diameter 3"8, and the outer depth 2*2 ■^. The eggs, three in 

 number, are very beautiful. Two are exactly ovate, and one 

 is slightly elongated ovate. The ground-colour is a red-pink, 

 or "old pink,^' and the markings consist of spots and bold 

 blotches of pale and dark carmine over violet underlying 

 blotches, with short hair-lines of dark carmine over the 

 carmine blotches. One egg has an irregular ring round the 

 large end, and one has the crimson blotches rather paler, 

 these forming a cap, which is prolonged in a broad irregular 

 blotch extending on one side over its whole length. They 

 measure 0-98 X 0-65, 0-96 X 0'68, and 0-95 x 0-66 inch. 



73. Spizixus sEMiTORQUEs Swiuhoc. 



We saw a flock of this species feeding on a tree near the 

 river on the 23i'd March, 1898, and found it common at Wu 

 Yi Shan. Three shot on the 23rd March had their stomachs 

 crammed with green-stuff — seeds or buds of the tree they 

 had been feeding on. I do not think that this Bulbul occurs 

 at Kuatun. 



* I am indebted to the officers of the British Museuin for the.se measure- 

 ments, as well as for those of the nests of Hypsipetes leucocephalus and 

 Cryptolopha sinensis obtained in 1898 at Kuatun, these nests having been 

 sent, unmeasured, to London. 



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