1922.] On the Jlirds of tlie Province of Thipeh. 445 



bill (exposed culinen) 27 ; depth of hill iit nostril G'8; width 

 at same point 56 ; metatarsus 8. For the type-specimen 

 Dnhois gave : wing 50 mm. ; culmon 23 : tarsus 8. 



The known distribution of Cori/tliornis leoj^oldi now in- 

 cludes the region of Lake Leopold IL and the Ituri forest 

 at Avakuhi, where this single specimen (all we ever saw) was 

 found along a small forest-brook. It may be of interest to 

 note that in this region of d(mse forest — unbroken save for 

 the clearings of mankind — CorijfJioi'nis rristata is extremely 

 rare, even along the banks of a large river like the Ituri. 



XXVI. — On. the Birds of the Province of Jhipeh in Central 

 China. By J. D. La Touche, C.M.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Thf, following notes are based on a small collection of 

 birds made from August 1918 to May 1919, almost entirely 

 in the (4iang-yang Hsien, a district of the })rovince of 

 Hupeh on the south bank of the Yangtse, south-east of 

 Ichang. and not far from the Hunan border. The Cliang- 

 yang district is within the region explored by the late 

 ^fr. Walter R. Za)ii)ey, the very able collector who accom- 

 panied ]\lr, E. H. Wilson in his journeys throughout Hupeh 

 and Szechuen, and who made in those provinces for Mr. John 

 Thayer, the magnificent collections of vertebrates now 

 deposited in the JMuseum of Comparative ZoiUogy at 

 Harvard (*ollege, C'ambridge, Mass. Zappey obtained in 

 Chang-yang Hsien forty species of birds. Amongst these 

 were : — Dryohates perni/i, Bahax Janceolatiis, Trorludoptervin 

 e/lioti, Yiihina diademata, and Pi/rrhula erythaca. altera, none 

 of which was obtained by my hunter. The country in 

 that part of Hupeh is mountainous, the elevation reaching, 

 as I was informed l)y Mr. Wilson, to at least GO(H) feet. 



The country about Sbasi, where I was stationed from 

 November 1917 to IMay 1919, is ])erfectly flat, and consists 

 of a cultivated plain, much broken by swamps, creeks, and 

 lakes. I did practically no collecting at Shasi, and the few 



