176 On a Collection of Birds from N.W. Fohkien. 



From this it will appear that C. brunneata is of the same 

 size generally as S. olivacea, but has a decidedly longer wing. 

 I might add that the description of S. albo-olivacea, Hume, 

 given in a footnote to the B. M. Cat. (iv. p. 457), does not fit 

 the present bird at all. 



J^ 12. Gecinulus viridanus, n. sp. 



Bears a general resemblance to G. grantia, McClell., of 

 India. It will be enough, perhaps, to point out the differences 

 between the two. G. viridanus is a dull green G. grantia ; 

 the red on the back is less vivid and is much mixed up with 

 green ; the yellow on the throat, sides of face, and back of 

 neck in G. grantia becomes in G. viridanus dull dingy green, 

 the hinder crown alone being yellowish. The rosy feathers 

 of the fore-crown are much less vivid in G. viridanus. But 

 the chief distinction lies in the much more boldly marked 

 wings and tail of the latter, which are black, distinctly barred 

 with buff, and a wash of rich deep red on the top of all. 

 The foregoing rather suggests a description of the young 

 bird of G. grantia, but the colouring is really very dissimilar, 

 and in the example sent me by Messrs. La Touche and 

 Rickett the rosy feathers of the head are confined to the 

 forehead, showing the bird to be an adult male. Lastly, the 

 Chinese bird has a longer wing by more than "3 inch (5"35 

 to 5'0 in G. grantia), thojigh in other respects much of the 

 same size. 



It was killed at Kuatun in the winter of 1895-96, and 

 Messrs. La Touche and Rickett's collector obtained it, and 

 the following, from a native. 



13. Dendrocopus insularis, Gould. 



An adult male, shot with the foregoing at Kuatun in 

 winter. Hitherto recorded only from Formosa, but a number 

 of the birds originally described from that locality are being 

 now discovered on the adjacent mainlaad. 



