334 Mr. r. W. Styan on the Birds of 



on the coast had been feeding freely on crabs ; another was 

 full of grasshoppers. M. solitarius is the prevailing form, 

 but there can be no doubt that it interbreeds with the 

 following. 



13. Monti COLA cyanus (L.). 



(251.) I obtained a single specimen, without a trace of 

 red on the lower parts, from the Lushan Hills, Kiukiang, in 

 January. 



13. CoPSYCHUS SAULARIS (L.). 



(264.) Abundant and resident. A familiar bird, living 

 mostly in gardens and about houses. It breeds in May, and 

 has two broods, for I have seen young birds just ready to 

 leave the nest on 18th July. The nest is placed in a hollow 

 tree, the roof of a verandah, or some similar place. 



Fam. TiMELiiD^. 



14. Dryonastes perspicillatus (Gm.). 



(286.) A common resident, frequenting thick cover and 

 bamboo-copses on the plains. 



15. Dryonastes sannio (Swinhoe). 



(287.) I have only come across this species during the 

 spring migration, at Kiukiang, in April and May. 



16. Trochalopterum canorum (L.). 



(283.) Leucodioptron chinense, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1871, 

 p. 371. 



Abundant throughout the district on wooded hills, where 

 they frequent the thick cover and find their food among the 

 dead leaves. They are not shy, but thread their way so 

 rapidly through the densest brushwood, half flitting, half 

 hopping from branch to branch, and sometimes dodging 

 along the ground among the stumps, that it is difficult to 

 shoot them. They sing most beautifully morning and 

 evening, and are then more easily approached. They are 

 favourite cage-birds with the natives, who can always rouse 

 them into song by imitating their note. When caged they 

 exhibit considerable powers of mimicry, and are often known 

 as " Mocking-birds.'^ 



