360 Mr. R. Swinhoe on the Ornithology of Hainan. 



[Francolin], when flying, is obliged to turn towards the south. 

 Its cry sounds ' Kow chow kih tih^ It also says, 'Hing puh 

 tih yay, ko-ko' [It is indeed of no use, my brother !] " 



129. ExcALFATORiA CHiNENSis (Linn.). 



On a grassy hill at Lingmun (Central Hainan) I fired at an 

 Emberiza fucata, and put up three of these little creatures from 

 quite close to me. I saw distinctly that they were two males 

 and a female of this species. I may add that the female is the 

 bird that I described before as Coturniw caineana from Swatow 

 (Ibis, 1865, p. 351). 



130. ?TuRNix MACULOSA (Tcmm.). 



I flushed a Turnix also at Lingmun, and at Nychow (S. 

 Hainan) saw several rise from the dry grass outside the jungle. 

 "We did not pick up a single bird. The Lingmun bird looked 

 like the T. maculosa; but it is not easy to determine one of this 

 genus without actual handling. 



131. Squatarola helvetica (Linn.). 



A specimen of the Grey Plover was shot on the mud of the 

 Hungpe lagoon (W. Hainan) on the 30th of March. 



132. Charadrius longipes, Temm. 



This Golden Plover was common in the marsh near the city 

 on the 5th of February. We found it in the dry rice-fields of 

 Paklai (W. Hainan) on the 21st of March, and abundant amoug 

 the sweet-potato gardens of Hoitow (W. Hainan) on the 23rd 

 of March. On the 2nd of April, at the port of Kiungchow, we 

 found them on the beach; they were then beginning to acquire 

 the black underdress of summer. 



133. ^gialitis geoffroyi (Wagler). 



On the mud of the creek at Paklai (W. Hainan) I shot a 

 specimen of this large-billed Sand-Plover. 



134. ^GIALITIS mongolicus (Pall.). 



On the 7th of March, on the Chinlan river (N. E. Hainan), 

 we shot one of these out of a small party that were about the 

 sandy banks, and on the 30th of the same month I got another 

 at Hungpe (N. W. Hainan). They were both in winter j)lum- 

 age. I have never found it on the south coast of China ; but iu 



