348 Mr. R. Swinhoe ua the Ornithology of Hainan. 



whiter on the throat and belly. Feathers of the wing hair- 

 brown, margined with yellowish-green, yellower on the quills. 

 Tail greenish-yellow, washed lightly with brown and with thin 

 brown shafts. Carpal edge of wing white. Axillaries, under 

 edges to reraiges and rectrices, and vent sulphur- yellow. 



Length about 4*5 in., wing2'6, tail (of 12 mucronate feathers) 

 1'8, bill from front '46, tarsus '57. 



Herpornis seems to me to connect Zosterops with Liothrix. 



103. Zosterops simplex, Swinhoe, P.Z.S., 1862, p. 317. 



I met the White-eye in all parts of Hainan, and procured seve- 

 ral examples, which do not differ from the South-China bird. 

 The most striking distinction between this and the Z. palpebrosus 

 (Temm.) of India is in the latter being larger and having the 

 green of the upper parts much yellower. 



104. Parus cixereus, Vieill. 



The only Titmouse observed by me in Hainan. I have three 

 skins which seem to agree to a feather with a specimen from 

 India given to me by Mr. Blyth. The Chinese bird, as I have 

 before noticed (Ibis, 1868, pp. 63, 64), is intermediate to the 

 Indian and Japanese species. 



105. CoRvus sinensis, Gould. 



On Naochow island we saw five Crows. All had small bills; 

 and the one we shot and brought home has turned out to be 

 C. corone of Europe. I was therefore not a little surprised to 

 find the common and familiar Crow of Hainan to be a large- 

 billed species. Mr. Tristram determined the Naochow bii'd and 

 called my attention to an Andaman Crow sent me by Mr. Blyth. 

 The Andaman Crow, however, I find to be of the C. cuhninatus 

 group. C. corone did not occur in Hainan. The bill in the 

 Hainan race attains a maximum size, and the wings and tail are 

 longer; but all these vary in my specimens from Swatow, Foo- 

 chow, Ningpo, and Peking. The Formosa bird, however, has 

 the large bill of the Hainan race, with shorter wings. This I 

 have separated as Corvus colonorum (Ibis, 1864, p. 427). I have 

 the C. japonensls, Bp., from Ilakodadi and Amoorland. It 

 has a strongly curved and differently shaped bill, and is a 

 larger bird. 



