244 Mr. R. Swinboe on the Ornithology of Hainan. 



It does not often seek high trees, and is not fearful of approach. 

 This is a curious instance of a distinct race" being found re- 

 sident in Hainan, while the ordinary bird of India passes by to 

 summer in the south of China. 



49. Pericrocotus cinereus, Lafresnaye. 



On our return voyage I found this species, together with 

 other migrants, in an orchard at Naochow, on the 5th April. 

 I procured a male. 



50. Pericrocotus cantonensis, Swinh., Ibis, 1861, p. 42. 

 Several of this were seen with the last at Naochovv, and two 



females shot. I presume they were on their passage north- 

 wards. Neither species turned up at Hainan, but one might 

 expect them to touch on the western coast of that island, as 

 some of the Fly-catchers have been found to do. 



51. Pericrocotus fraterculus, sp. n. 



This brightly coloured Minivet is a resident in Hainan, and 

 found in all the woody parts of the island. It is a diminutive 

 of P. speciosus (Lath.), but is much smaller, with smaller and 

 less-hooked bill. The males of the two races do not ap- 

 pear to differ in colour; but the female of the lesser bird is 

 much brighter-coloured, with the front band bright yellow. 

 The typical P. speciosus I have got several times from the inner 

 mountains of the Fokien Pi-ovincej and as my dozen specimens 

 from Hainan agree with one another in size and colour, I think 

 it as well to separate the smaller race from the well-known 

 Indian species. Mr. Gould has the Hainan species from Siam 

 and the Khasia hills. It measures about 8 inches ; wing 3'8 ; 

 tail 3-8. 



Du Halde, in his ' Description de la Chine,' published in 1735 

 (i. p. 230), gives a short account of Hainan, mentioning, among 

 other ornithological productions of the island, " some little birds 

 of the size of a * fauvette,' which are of the finest red that can 

 be seen, and others whose plumage is of a golden-yellow, which 

 has much brilliancy. These two species of bird, although dif- 

 ferent, are always found together.^' 



52. DicRURUs macrocercus (Vieillot). 



In all the cultivated parts of Hainan, and in the clearings at 



