256 Mr. A. Neiwton on Existing Remains 



streak purplish cobalt-blue. Under parts rich orange-saffron, 

 marked with green on the sides of the belly. Carpal joint 

 edged with cobalt-blue. Wings and tail light hair-brown un- 

 derneath. Bill deep brownish -black. Irides deep brown. Legs 

 and toes leaden grey. 



Length about 7 inches ; wing 3' 7 ; tail 3, of 12 feathers. 



Female. General colour green, greyish on the head, and 

 tinged with yellow on the under parts. Her moustache-feathers 

 are tipped with purplish-cobalt. Her tail is green, with brown 

 stems to the feathei's, and the inner or concealed halves of her 

 wing-feathers are hair-brown. 



Wing 3-5 ; tail 2-8. 



On returning to Tai-ping-sze (Central Hainan) from the inner 

 mountains, I was watching for birds by the side of a cottage 

 ensconced in a wood, when suddenly I heard a long loud chat- 

 ter which was quite new to me. I turned in the direction of 

 the noise, and saw what seemed to be a squirrel. On staring 

 more fixedly I made it out to be a bird hanging head down- 

 wards on a creeping plant that entwined a tree, and reaching 

 after insects on its flowers. 1 trembled with excitement when 

 I picked up a fine male of this very lovely species. I did not 

 see it again till we reached Yu-lin-kan (S. Hainan). Here, 

 among the jungles, while we were refreshing ourselves by a 

 stream, to which our savage guide (before mentioned) had led 

 us, three or four of these birds appeared in the trees overhead, 

 uttering loud mellow notes. I scrambled about through the 

 tangles, and succeeded in getting a pair. 



^ [To be continued.] 



XVIII. On Existing Remains of the Gare-fowl (Alca impennis). 

 By Alfred Newton. 



In consequence of a notice in ' The Ibis' (1868, p. 34'2) of 

 the list of remains of Alca impennis, published by M. Victor 

 Fatio in the ' Bulletin de la Societe Ornithologique Suisse (ii. 

 pt. 1, pp. 80-85), that gentleman has asked me to furnish him 

 with such further information as I can supply on the subject. 



