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(h) No trace of white spots. — 2 . December. Wing 4'65 inches. 

 (i) Ditto. — December. Wing 4'1 inches. 

 (j) Ditto. — 2 • March. Wing 4-65 inches. 

 (k) Ditto. — December. Wing 4"65 inches. 

 (l) Ditto.— c?. April. Wing 4-3 inches, 

 (m) Ditto. — August. Wing 4-6 inches. 



This is not an uncommon species about Shuikow^ from 

 whence all my skins have been obtained, except one shot 

 on this island and one a few miles up the Miu. Usually 

 feeds on insects. The only one I have personally dissected 

 was the one shot here. It was a female, and had the remains 

 of a small bird (apparently Zosterops) in the stomach. Col- 

 lector says they breed in April. 



- Haliaetus albicilla (Linn.). 



One in nearly adult plumage, dated September. 



BuTORiDEs javanica (Horsf.). 



I have only two skins of this species, dated June and Sep- 

 tember. It seems to be uncommon. 



CiCONIA NIGRA (LiuU.). 



A bird of this species was bought from a native (in the 

 flesh) by my collector. The man who sold it said it had 

 been shot near here, but it might have come down in a 

 steamer from Shanghai. This was in November. 



I Ibis melanocephalus (Lath.). 



I have one specimen, shot near the mouth of the river in 

 November. It is immature. 



Cygnus bewtckii, Yarrell. 



My collector shot four Swans in one of the bays on the 

 coast, south of Sharp Peak, in January. I was rather sur- 

 prised that the severe cold this year did not drive some of 

 these birds in here. 



Chaulelasmus streperus (Briss.). 



The extreme cold added this species to the Foochow list. 

 My collector shot three males and one female on 18th January, 

 a little way down the river. I shot one (male) and lost 

 another out of a lot of about a dozen that rose out of a little 



