the Birds of the Province of Fohkien. 609 



Further specimens are required to settle this point. — 

 W. R. O. G.] 



Proparus guttaticollis. 



Proparus guttaticollis, de La Touche, Bull. B. O. C. vi. 

 p. 1 (May 1897). 



Adult. Nearly allied to P. striaticollis (Verr.), but the top 

 of the head and nape are uniform snuiF-brown^ Avithout a 

 trace of black markings^ and indistinctly bordered all round 

 with a band of dark smoky brown ; the lores are white, not 

 black. Total length 4'6 inches^ culmen 0-5, wing 2*05, 

 tail 2 Ij tarsus 0-95. 



Hab. Kuatun, Fohkien. 



[There can be no doubt that Mr. Oates is rights and that 

 the genus Fuhetta [David & Oustalet, Ois. Chine, p. 220 

 (1877)], proposed for the three species F. cinereiceps, F. rufi- 

 capilla, and F. striaticollis, is merely a synonym of Proparus, 

 Hodgson, J. A. S. B. x. pt. 1, p. 29 (1841).— W. B. O. G.] 



- Oreocorys sylvanus (Hodgs.). 



One was seen by de La Touche on the way to Ching Feng 

 Ling. This bird behaved exactly as one shot on a barren 

 hillside near Foochow in January 1896. It was skulking 

 under the thin scrub close to the road, and when disturbed 

 ran a little way and flew up, to alight a few paces off among 

 the low bushes that covered the hillside below the road. 



This species is probably a not uncommon resident on the 

 Fohkien hills. 



Emberiza tristrami, Swinhoe. [471.] 



A party of these Buntings frequented a patch of dead 

 vegetation [Artemisia'^) just outside the village. They seem 

 to be ground-feeders, and the call {tzit-tzit) and their ways 

 are very like those of E. spodocephala. Another flock was 

 met with in a plantation of tea-oil trees. 



This species would thus appear to winter among the hills, 

 which explains our not having met with it near Foochow, 

 except on one occasion (Jan. 1896), when a single female 

 example was shot on a wooded hillock close to Foochow. 



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