242 Mr. R. Swinhoe on the Ornithologrj of Hainan. 



lower branches of trees, from which it frequently dropped to 

 the ground. I procured two males and a female. The male 

 Hainan bird has the grey of the head and hind neck clearer, 

 and the brown of the back, wing, and tail lighter than is usual in 

 Indian specimens ; but the two birds otherwise agree. The 

 female has the head the same colour as the back. Her eye-streak 

 is brown and indistinct, except on the ear-coverts. Her bill is 

 lighter-coloured, and pale at the base of the lower mandible. 

 c? & $. Wing 4-5; tail 3-125. 



47. Graucalus rex-pineti, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1863, p. 41. 



At Tai-ping-sze (Central Hainan) I came across a party of 

 large Caterpillar-catchers in an open glade in the forest. They 

 flew with the sweeping flight of a Fly-catcher from tree to tree, 

 perching on the thick branches. Some I noticed had very black 

 faces and under necks, like the Formosan bird. Unfortunately, 

 however, I only succeeded in shooting a couple of immature 

 birds. These I can match from my Formosan series ; but they 

 have rather larger bills, with the tomia of the upper mandible 

 near the base more bulging, and bending over the tomia of the 

 lower. This character also occurs in some of the Formosan birds, 

 but not to such an extent. My Hainan examples measure : — 

 wing 6-625 ; tail 5-5, of twelve feathers, narrowed towards 

 their ends and graduated. There is a mounted specimen in the 

 gallery of the British Museum, which has quite as black a face and 

 breast as the finest of my Formosans. It is simply marked 

 " India.'' It seems to be identical with the Formosan form ; 

 and from this occurring in Hainan I should infer that it possi- 

 bly extends to the Tenasserim. In Lord Walden's collection 

 there are also some black-faced Indians. The true G. niaccei 

 (Less.), from India, would appear to have only a trace of black 

 on the cheeks in its adult state. I have an adult from Hindos- 

 tan, sent me by Mr. Blyth, which has no marks of immaturity 

 on its under parts, and yet has but a faint tinge of black before 

 and in rear of the eyes. In G. rex-pineti, both sexes acquire 

 the black, but the female has it to a less extent. 



48. VOLVOCIVORA SATURATA, sp. n. 



This is a smaller, shorter-winged, and darker species than 



