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THE IBIS. 



SIXTH SERIES. 



No. XXIII. JULY 1891. 



XXV. — Notes on the Ornitho/or/i/ of China. 

 By F. W. Styan, F.Z.S. 



(Plate IX.) 



These few notes on tlie Birds of China I have grouped 

 according to the districts to which they refer, each of these 

 districts having its own more or less characteristic avifauna. 



I. Upper Yangtse District. 



The following are some of the most interesting* birds 

 obtained by my collector in Western China during the last 

 two years. The greater number w^ere killed near Ichang, in 

 Hoopelij close to the borders of Sechuen, others on the river 

 between Ichang and Chungking (500 miles higher up), and 

 a few at Chungking itself. The last ])lace does not appear 

 to be a good centre for collecting, and the results of his stay 

 there were disappointing. 



The Ichang collection contains some valuable birds, and 

 shows very plainly the Ilimalo-Chiuese character of the 

 Upper Yangtse avifauna. 



At Ichang the river leaves the mountains and enters what 

 I have ventured to call the Lower Yangtse basin, and the 

 avifauna changes as abruptly as the river itself. 



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