444 Mr. F. W. Sty an on the Chinese Avifauna. 



1. Trochalopterum cinereiceps, Styan. 



Since describing the first specimens from Yunnan (Ibis, 

 1887, p. 166, pi. vi.), I have met with several caged birds 

 in Shanghai, which had been taken among the hills behind 

 Hangchow, Chekiang province. The figure in ' The Ibis ' was 

 taken from a worn skin, and shows ths central rectrices with 

 the extremities wholly black ; they should be tipped with 

 white, though less broadly than the outer feathers. 



2. Phylloscopus AFFiNis (Tickcll) . 



Two specimens obtained on the Lushan hills near Kiu- 

 kiang on 29tli and 30th October, at which date swarms of 

 Willow Warblers and other migrants were collected there, 

 on their way south. Hitherto the species does not appear to 

 have been found east of Sechuen. 



3. ACROCEPHALUS AGRICOLA (Jcrdou) . 



This bird, as was to be expected, has turned up in China 

 in summer. It is plentiful at Kiukiaug, breeding among the 

 reed-beds on the wet plains. A nest with four eggs was 

 brought me in June, the former deep cup-shaped, suspended 

 between three reeds, and formed entirely of dry grasses : 

 the eggs Lave a pale greenish-blue ground mottled with grey 

 and moss-brown. This species remained as late as 12th 

 October, when I shot one in very rich russet plumage newly 

 assumed. 



Mr. H. H. Slater has kindly identified the species by com- 

 parison with Indian skins. 



4. Cettia fortipes (Hodgson). 



This species is not confined, in China, to the southern 

 provinces, but" is very abundant throughout the Yangtse 

 valley in summer. A few remain during the winter, as is 

 also the case with C. canturiens and, possibly, with C. minuta, 

 though I have not met with the last named later than 6th 

 November. 



5. Parus venustulus, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 133. 

 The range of this species is much wider than is generally 



known. Mr. Dc lu Tonche has met with it in Fokicn pro- 



