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summer, does not occur in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 Swatow, but my boy shot one up the Keyong River on the 

 2nd May. No doubt it breeds there. 



148. Alcedo bengalensis (Briss.). [120.] 



Foochow. Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 230. 



Abundant and resident at Foochow and Swatow. 



I kept some young birds in a cage with gauze sides for 

 some weeks, feeding them on fish, which, after a while they 

 learnt to pick up themselves out of a plate at the bottom of 

 the cage. But as soon as they could feed themselves they 

 became very wild, and, their piercing screams in the early 

 morning making them an intolerable nuisance, I let them go. 



Mr. Baun, vrho once noticed some natives catching this 

 Kingfisher, told me that when the bird had been deprived 

 of its back feathers it was let go again, but with a dis- 

 tinguishing mark attached to it, to prevent a needless second 

 capture. 



The feathers of Halcyon smyrnensis are also largely used 

 in China for making the feather ornaments so much in use 

 among the native women, but those of H. pileatus are not 

 appreciated. 



-^149. Ceryle rudis (Linn.). [124.] 

 Foochow. Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 230. 

 Abundant and resident at Foochow and Swatow. 



^ 150. Ceryle guttata, Vig. [125.] 

 Foochow. Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 230. 



Seen by my shooting-boy in the hill-country west of 

 Swatow. 



151. Halcyon smyrnensis (Linn.). [122.] 

 Foochow. Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 280. 

 Common and resident at Foochow and Swatow. 



152. Halcyon pileatus (Bodd.). [121.] 

 Foochow. Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 230. 



Not uncommon at Foochow in spring and from the end of 



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