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buff-coloured on the tibife and vent. Carpal edge of vving; 

 primrose. Axillaries yellowish, and under edges of quills 

 whitish, both with a wash of light salmon-colour. Bill blackish, 

 pale on the lower mandible. Legs and toes light yellowish- 

 brown. 



Length about 8*5 ; wing 4-125; tail4.-125, of 12 slightly gra- 

 duated feathers. 



I often saw parties of this species in the woods of Tai-ping-sze 

 (Central Hainan). They went about the underwood calling to 

 each other in low soft notes. The iris of one shot there I have 

 noted as " light umber-brown." Near Lingmun, further in- 

 land, they resorled in some numbers to a big tree under which 

 I sat sketching; and here I jotted down the iris as "greyish- 

 brown, with a paler circle round the pupd." Among the jungles 

 of Yu-lin-kan (S. Hainan) they occurred again. 



75. IXUS HAINANUS, sp. n. 



On landing at Naochow island the first bird we saw was a 

 green Bulbul, and I noticed at once that it wanted the occipital 

 white to its black crown. Bulbuls were common at Naochow, 

 and we shot several, but I sought in vain for a "White-bonnet;" 

 they were all black-capped. Throughout Hainan it was the 

 same, always the " Black-cap," but, so far as I could see, with 

 precisely the same notes and habits as the ordinary Chinese 

 " White-bonnet." The description of the Chinese bird /. si- 

 nensis, before given by me (Ibis, 1863, p. 65), will do equally 

 well for this bird, except as regards the head. The Hainan 

 bird has no occipital white, the whole crown to the nape being- 

 black. Its bill also is stouter. Irides deep bx-own. 



Length about 7 in. ; wing 3-5 ; tail 3*3. 



On leaving Hainan the gunboat crossed the strait and an- 

 chored in a bight of the lowlands of the Luichow peninsula. 

 Here we found on a hedge the "Black -cap" and the " White- 

 bonnet " sitting side by side. Naochow island is 40 miles 

 from Hainan, and only 5 from the Luichow peninsula; and 

 the " Black-cap " alone occurred there. Hainan is 15 miles 

 from the peninsula; and the "Black-cap" alone occurred there. 

 Surely it could not be that /. sinensis feared to cross so narrow 



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