Birds of Foochow and Sivatow. 481 



-f- 160. MEGAL.iiMA viRENs, Bodd. [89.] 



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



Not uiicotiunon on the Foochow and Swatow hills. 



An adult female example obtained near Swatow at the end 

 of February had the tertiaries of a warm cinnamon colour. 

 The rest of the plumage was normal. 



N.B. — Mr. Baun^s boy procured him a specimen of a 

 Barbet, which he assured us had been shot near his native 

 place, a city about twelve miles S.E. of Foochow. He told 

 us that ten examples had been shot altogether, but that the 

 bird was very rare and only a summer visitant. 



Being unable to go to the place myself, I sent my shooting- 

 boy and taxidermist there at the end of September, but they 

 failed to procure me a specimen, and the natives could give 

 them no information on the subject. Mr. Baun sent his 

 bird at once to Professor Collett, but I did not hear any- 

 thing more about it. 



As it may be true that the bird was really shot in the 

 locality stated by the man, and not brought, as I at first 

 suspected, from foreign lands, I give here a rough descrip- 

 tion of it : — 



Size small ; bill (dried) bluish black ; general colour of 

 body bright green ; crown of head bright red ; a broad blue 

 eyebrow; some red on the* /ores; a yellow spot behind the 

 ears ; throat bright blue ; and a bright crimson spot on 

 either side of breast. 



[This looks very like M. versicolor, a common Indo- 

 Malayan species, and the whole affair like a Celestial fraud. 

 — H. H. S.] 



III. STRIGES. 



161. Bubo ignavus (Forster). [58.] 

 Foochow. De la Touche, Ibis, 1887, p. 469. 



An adult specimen was shot since by the native wildfowler 

 Tsung-yang at Foochow. 



162. Scops glabripes, Swinh. [64.] 



Scops elegans, Styan, Ibis, 1887, p. 230 (nee Cassin). 

 Foochow. April, June, July, and November. 



