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PoDiCEPS CRISTATUS (Liiin.). (Styan, Ihis, 1891^ p. 509.) 

 In January 1893^ during exceptionally severe weather, 



numbers of these birds were fishing among the ice-floes on 



the Whangpoo, 40 miles above Shanghai. 



III. Island of Formosa. 



Pycnonotus taivanus. (Plate IX.) 



P. taivanus, Styan, Ibis, 1893, p. 470. 



I have now been able to compare the type and only known 

 specimen of this species (from which the figure is taken) 

 with its nearest allies. I have no doubt about its distinct- 

 ness, and the characters already given readily distinguish 

 it. The bird was probably obtained among the wooded 

 mountains in the south of the island, for among the birds 

 collected at the same time were examples of Treron formoses 

 and Cyanops nuchalis. 



IV. Island of Hainan. 



ToTANUS GUTTiFERUS, Nordnianu. 



Totanus guttiferus, Seebohm, CharadriidcC, p. 354. 



T. haughtoni, Armstrong. 



I omitted this interesting species from the list of birds 

 obtained by Mr. Schmacker in Hainan, mistaking the speci- 

 mens for T. canescens, which they much resemble. His 

 collector killed a pair at Hoihow on February 3rd, the first 

 that have been met with in China, though the bird must 

 be a regular migrant along our coast. 



The upper parts on these specimens are brown, \i'ith dark 

 shaft-streaks and pale edgings to the feathers, but with no 

 bars on the back or tertiaries as in T. canescens. Lower 

 back white, with a few faint arrow-shaped marks, more 

 distinct on the upper tail- coverts. Rectrices nearly uniform 

 grey, tipped and edged with white, and only the faintest 

 trace of bars. Under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white. 

 Bill stouter than in T. canescens. Length from gape 2*3 and 

 2'4 inches, tarsus 1'8, wing G*5 and 7. 



